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Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services Recognizes The Joint Commission's Critical Access Hospital Accreditation
The Department of Health and Human Services" Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has again granted The Joint Commission deeming authority for the accreditation of critical access hospitals.
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What Makes An Angry Fly?
A suite of genes that affect aggression in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been identified. By investigating male flies from a large panel of lines which each carry a mutation in a single gene but are otherwise genetically identical, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology identified particularly angry and particularly placid insects, uncovering 59 mutations in 57 genes that affect aggressive behavior.
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States To Pursue New Integrated Care Approaches For Dual Eligibles
As the nation debates health reform options, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) is launching Transforming Care for Dual Eligibles , a state initiative to test innovative care models for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid ("dual eligibles"). Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Vermont will implement strategies to improve care and control costs for dual eligibles, a high-need population with health care costs nearly five times those of other Medicare beneficiaries. The program is made possible through support from The Commonwealth Fund.
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National Parks Are Not Enough To Protect Kenya's Wildlife

For the past half-century or more, conservation goals have focused on saving endangered species and establishing national parks, which now cover 10% of the earth"s land surface. But do parks really protect wildlife, and more importantly, biodiversity? Survey results from Kenyan scientists who looked at 30 years of wildlife data published on July 8th in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE show that though vital, Kenya"s parks are insufficient to protect species. "The decline in Kenya"s park populations is not surprising, given the inherent shortcomings in their design. Only a modest portion of the annual migratory range of large herbivores is included in Kenya"s parks," said senior author Dr. David Western in a paper titled The Status of Wildlife in Protected Areas Compared to Non-Protected Areas of Kenya, co-authored with Samantha Russell and Innes Cuthill. "We need a radical review of conservation policies in East Africa in order to sustain biological diversity, ecosystem function, and ecological services," said Western, who was raised in Tanzania and has been studying wildlife and people in Kenya for 40 years. "To do that we must monitor wildlife in and outside parks. We must also foster local conservation efforts and encourage "parks beyond parks" to protect vital landscapes outside national parks. "Quantification of species trends and the factors governing population and ecosystem viability are vital to forecasting, planning and managing wildlife populations, and in auditing the success of alternatives conservation policies and practices." Dr. Western co-founded the African Conservation Centre (ACC) in 1996 in Nairobi and today he remains on the board of directors; the African Conservation Fund is the U.S.-based support organization for ACC. This study was supported by funds from the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation and the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors have stated no conflicts of interests. Link to article Public Library of Science


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