Volume 22 No. 44
November 20, 2015
Reuters: sexting, internet safety loom large as childhood health concerns
As more kids use mobile phones and surf the web at increasingly younger ages, sexting and Internet safety are becoming bigger childhood health concerns, edging out longtime worries like smoking and teen pregnancy, a new poll suggests. Internet safety rose to become the fourth most commonly identified major problem in the 2015 C.S. Mott Children's Hospital national poll on children's health, up from eighth the year before, with 51 percent of adults this year citing it as a top concern. Read article here.  (Rapaport, 8/10)
3 keys to giving effective feedback
A key to delivering effective feedback is to focus on helping your direct reports grow and improve rather than reprimanding them, writes executive coach Monique Valcour. Have an open dialogue with the recipient of the feedback, and engage him or her in the problem-solving process, she advises. "A true developmental leader sees the raw material for brilliance in every employee and creates the conditions to let it shine, even when the challenge is tough," Valcour writes. Harvard Business Review online  (8/11)
medicare pays top dollar for 'ultra-high' nursing home therapy
The Wall Street Journal reports on how patients who get at least 720 minutes of rehab a week generate some of nursing facilities' biggest payments from Medicare. 
The Wall Street Journal: How Medicare Rewards Copious Nursing-Home Therapy

During his 2013 California nursing-home stay, Jack Furumura became severely dehydrated and shed more than 5 pounds, partly because staff didn't follow written plans for his nutrition or the facility's policies, a state inspection report shows. Still, during many of his 21 days there, the 96-year-old man suffering from dementia received two hours or more of physical and occupational therapy combined, records show. (Weaver, Wilde Mathews and McGinty, 8/16)
 
medicare says doctors should get paid to discuss end-of-life issues
The topic is complex and sometimes requires multiple visits, but right now doctors are paid for it only if they discuss end-of-life planning in their initial visit with a new Medicare patient. (Kristian Foden-Vencil, Oregon Public Broadcasting and Stephanie O'Neill, Southern California Public Radio, 8/18) 
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"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."   -Ronald Reagan

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."   -Theodore Roosevelt

"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs." -Dhirubhai Ambani

"You must do the things today that others will not do so that you can have the things tomorrow that others will not have."  -Anonymous

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."  -George Lorimer

"You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right."  -Aiung San Suu Kyi

"If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti

"There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going." -Beverly Sills

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement." -Kurt Lewin

"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee." -Michel de Montaigne

"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.  And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task." -Viktor Frankl