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Volume 22 No. 44
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November 20, 2015
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Reuters: sexting, internet safety loom large as childhood health concerns
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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)
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3 keys to giving effective feedback
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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)
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medicare pays top dollar for 'ultra-high' nursing home therapy
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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)
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medicare says doctors should get paid to discuss end-of-life issues
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