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What Keeps You Up At Night?

Over the past 17 years we’ve posed this same question to hundreds of executives. Invariably, their greatest challenges remain the same. This is what executives say weighs most heavily on their minds: how do I manage employees’ performance, what can we do to retain our talent pool, how do we keep our current customers happy and how can we increase our revenues?

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Extended Care News on the Web is a comprehensive resource for clinical information on geriatric medicine and long-term care as well as Patient Handling. We hope the articles below provide timely information for your practice.


Industry News November/December 2004
The guide is available for $195 ($175 for members of ECRI? Visit http://www.ecri.org for more information. For more information, visit http://www.arjo.com. BG North America Announces Agreement with Hill-Rom® BG North America, manufacturer of therapeutic support surfaces, announces the signing of a new licensing agreement with ...



Understanding Skin Tears: the ?Whys? and ?Hows?
Although skin tears are difficult to prevent and treat, caregivers can limit their impact by adhering to a few key objectives.



Conference Calls
Another nice thing about the conferences is that at any moment you can meet someone of great future value to your mission. Perhaps the best part of the conferences, however, is the chance to meet and discuss ECPN with you, the readers. In closing, I hope to meet many of you at the spring and summer long-term care conferences?



September 2005
s Xenaderm Ointment Available in a 30-g Tube HEALTHPOINT® (Fort Worth, Tex) announces that Xenaderm? For more information, visit http://www.healthpoint.com. FLA Orthopedics? The product provides support to the arch of the foot.



May 2005
Visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/mcguckin/handwashing/ for more information. EAST Medical ARJO? All products are supported by ARJO?





Regulatory News
Fall Management Technology: Can a New Generation Position Monitor Assist with F-Tag 323 Compliance?
Using Medications Appropriately
Creating a Culture of Safety
Answering Skin and Wound Questions
Medicare Enhances QIO Program Oversight
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Preventing the Spread of Infection from Healthcare Workers to Residentstss
Preventing the Spread of Infection from Medical Devices
Incontinence-Associated Skin Damage in Nursing Home Residents: A Secondary Analysis of a Prospective, Multicenter Study
Targeting the Science Within Wounds
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