Recent Articles
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Free-standing EDs on the rise, but do they target wealthy patients?
Chelsea Adams Healthcare AdministrationThe number of free-standing emergency departments that offer quick access to emergency care has exploded across the country. With the increase in these types of facilities, another trend has emerged: Free-standing EDs are being built in zip codes where people have a higher annual income and private insurance.
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Medical schools attempting to curb physician burnout, opioid epidemic
Lonny Alfred Medical & Allied HealthcareThe numbers don't lie. Cases of opioid addiction and overdoses have been on the upward bound in the last decade. Just as alarming, more than half of practicing physicians today display signs of burnout, and those rates don't look to be declining any time soon.
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Buyer beware: Faulty cables may ruin your new smartphone
Ross Lancaster Science & TechnologyIt's the day after you've bought a brand-new smartphone, and you're about to embark on an important business trip full of important meetings and presentations. As you arrive at your gate, you find an electrical outlet to give your phone one last charge before boarding. You scramble to find the charger in your briefcase before having the sinking feeling that you left it on the counter at home.
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Housing still hoping to gain momentum
Michael J. Berens Construction & Building MaterialsSlow but steady is the current prognosis for the housing industry. Housing starts are up for the first seven months of the year, but month-to-month gains have remained flat for the past four months. Meanwhile, requests for single-family permits have declined, which could mean fewer new starts in the months ahead.
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Vertical resources for association executives
Robert C. Harris Association ManagementThe United States has more than 150,000 associations. Nearly 3,000 national associations reside in the Washington, D.C., area, while the majority of associations are state and local in scope. Where do association professionals turn for help?
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Too many K-12 students face food insecurity
Bambi Majumdar EducationMore than 1.3 million children throughout the United States fall under the category of "homeless student." The 2013 census showed more than half of the nation's public school children fell into the low-income category.
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Voucher programs: A bold new model for organ donation
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareA grandfather's sacrifice has created a new model of organ donation at several hospitals across the United States. This program started at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center when a 64-year-old man made an unorthodox proposal to hospital leaders. He would donate one of his kidneys to a person on the waiting list now in exchange for a kidney for his grandson sometime in the future.
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The environmental and social legacy of the Rio Olympics
Dr. Spiro Doukas Sports & FitnessEach Olympic Games has its own legacy — many are positive, but some stand out as negative. Stadiums remaining from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, are now in disuse and neglected. Terrorist events occurred during the Games in Munich in 1972 and in Atlanta in 1996. The 1980 Moscow and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games experienced boycotts from various countries' teams.
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Living full-time in your RV: On the road
Howard Jaros Recreation & LeisureIn Parts 1 and 2 of this article I discussed the ideas of renting an RV before you buy one, considering the limited space and how it will affect your current family relationships; choosing your domicile state; remembering the pets and their needs; establishing a budget to see where you stand, with a possible need to supplement your income to afford the lifestyle; and choosing the best RV for you.
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Pastors, stop saying you have stories
Mark MacDonald Religious CommunityWe've been there. Standing on the platform, we want to encourage the congregation. To motivate them to continue doing something we've been asking them to do. We have a "feeling" it's happening. They must be doing what we've been asking. In fact, you've probably heard some third-party anecdotes. So-and-so told you about someone she knows who is doing something. You can't even remember their names or details.