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The board of directors of the Community Foundation has approved a technical assistance grant of $3,000 for Community Oral Health Services to provide staff training on recently acquired patient management software. The new system establishes a foundation for "tele-dentistry" among the organization's three mobile clinics and their administration office and will improve its ability to serve young children in remote areas on the Central Coast. .
Edison students required to return to school
HAMMONDSVILLE � Superintendent Lisa Carmichael stated it will take an �act of God,� a death in the family or a personal illness to excuse the absence of any student in the Edison Local School District beginning Monday.
The announcement came in the form of a letter written by Carmichael, who told parents that despite the ongoing strike by members of the Edison Local Education Association, �operations have returned to normal and we are now requiring, effective Monday, that all absences by students be for excused reasons only.�
Carmichael said today the reason the letter was sent out was because she has been �mandated by the state� to have the district�s students go back to school. She noted the Ohio Department of Education was made aware of the low attendance rate of the district since the 140 members of the ELEA, who have been working without a contract since June 14, began their 10-day strike on Nov.
CT Scans To Determine Heart Disease In The Emergency Room
In the future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT scan. If the diagnosis is negative, the patient can go home�"and the total time at the hospital will be much shorter than it is today.
That is the theory behind a study being presented at the RSNA (Abstract ID: 5009389; Monday, November 26, 3:10 p.m.) by Rajan Agarwal, M.D., a resident in Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
"The cost of chest pain triage (where patients in the Emergency Department are prioritized based on their symptoms) and management has been estimated to be as high as $8 billion annually, with most patients ultimately not having to remain in the hospital. Therefore," Dr. Agarwal states, "there is a tremendous opportunity to reduce health care costs if we can demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of this procedure with low-risk patients who go to the Emergency Department."
Further, this reduced length of stay improves resource utilization by decreasing costs, improving inpatient bed shortages and reducing crowding in the Emergency Department.
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