Online Continuing Education: August 2012

Friday, August 24, 2012

Survey Says a Third of Doctors Won't Treat New Medicaid Patients

Health Affairs, a medical-news journal, recently published the results of a survey that aimed to find out how well accepted new Medicaid patients are. The study, conducted in 2011 of doctors by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), showed that 69 percent of doctors in the United States accept new Medicaid patients. The survey, however, also discovered that acceptance is not uniform, varying greatly from city to city and state to state. That might ultimately prove to be a stumbling block for the newly approved federal healthcare law. The new law is expected to bolster...

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OSHA Opens Nominations to NACOSH

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. worksite-safety watchdog, announced on July 25 that it has opened nominations for four members to serve on the 12-member National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH). The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 established NACOSH to advise the Secretaries of Labor and Health and Human Services on the administration of the Act. OSHA training, such as OSHA 10 training and OSHA 30, is today required by many employers as an employment requisite, and its adoption by all employers is strongly encouraged...

12K Healthcare Jobs in July

After the great debate at the Supreme Court and the brouhaha after the Obama Healthcare Plan got the nod, the healthcare industry quickly demonstrated its clout on the job market by adding 12,000 jobs to the national economy in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported recently.The report validates earlier indications that demand for healthcare was soaring, with most of the job openings expected for medical office assistant, registered nurse, pharmacist, clinical laboratory technician, physical therapist, occupational therapist, paramedic, and massage therapist (not necessarily...

BP Settles for Over $13 million for Abate Violations

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced that the agency and BP Products North America Inc. have resolved most (409 of 439) citations issued by it in October 2009. BP agreed to pay $13,027,000 in penalties and has already stopped some violations and is in the process of abating the rest, with the end of 2012 as its deadline. OSHA reported that most of BP’s infractions were willful violations of OSHA's process-safety management (PSM) standard at the oil company’s refinery in Texas City, Texas. Although OSHA safety training—OSHA 10...

Obama Says Healthcare Ruling a Victory for All

The recent Supreme Court's landmark healthcare ruling drew praise from President Obama, who said that "it's time for us to move forward to implement and, where necessary, improve."Obama took special note of the provisions of the law that he explained will for the first time provide health insurance for nearly all Americans when it is fully implemented in 2014. He allayed fears that millions of Americans have to give up their current insurance plans.The new healthcare law is expected to bolster the already-soaring demand for healthcare jobs. Among these jobs are for medical office assistant, registered...

OSHA Opens Nominations to NACOSH, BP Settles with OSHA

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on July 25 that it was now accepting nominations for four members to serve on the 12-member National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), which advises the Secretaries of Labor and Health and Human Services on the administration of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. OSHA said that nominations will be accepted for one representative from each of the following areas: management, occupational health, occupational safety, and public. Each member serves a two-year term. OSHA occupational...

He-wax Gets the Trousers Down, Full Compliance with IFRA Standards Reported

Now that “metrosexual” has graduated from the fringe to the mainstream—as most U.S. beauty professionals, such as those who have a cosmetology license or cosmetology CE credentials well know—a new but natural addition to the menfolk’s brave march to the beauty salons has hit the headlines once more: he-wax. Not that men have gotten any braver in the short time it took to say without flinching “I’m going to the beauty salon, Dear,” but the nouveau trend to be more groomed has driven more and more men to seek measures hitherto reserved for the ladies. And that, painfully, now includes...

Obama Says Healthcare Ruling a Victory for All, 12K Healthcare Jobs in July

The recent Supreme Court’s landmark healthcare ruling drew praise from President Obama, who said that “it’s time for us to move forward to implement and, where necessary, improve.”Obama took special note of the provisions of the law that he explained will for the first time provide health insurance for nearly all Americans when it is fully implemented in 2014. He allayed fears that millions of Americans have to give up their current insurance plans.The new healthcare law is expected to bolster the already-soaring demand for healthcare jobs. Among these jobs are for medical office assistant,...

OSHA Slates Training Event, Seeks Nominations to FACOSH

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are keeping the federal agency staff responsible for keeping federal workers healthy and safe on its toes. The OSHA Training Institute (OTI) and OSHA's Office of Federal Agency Programs have slated a series of training seminars this July that would put safety programs of federal workplaces on a par with those of the private sector. Fifty-three federal worker deaths in fiscal 2010 and 30,000 federal workers' compensation claims backdrop the event, lending not just relevance to the seminars but also some urgency. The training event is designed...

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