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ROCKEFELLER CHARGES REPUBLICANS BLOCK FUNDING FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) charged Republicans today with blocking compromise legislation to protect funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). On September 30th, $1.2 billion in designated, unspent CHIP funds were sent back to the national Treasury. Within the next two years the program will lose even more funding. The compromise legislation would have protected this CHIP funding for the next two years.



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Barbara Paul, MD

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

7500 Security Boulevard

Baltimore, MD

By email: Bpaul@cms.hhs.gov

Re: Nursing Home Quality Initiative and the treatment of bedrails

Dear Dr. Paul:

Thank you for speaking at NCCNHR's session Sunday morning, October 27, about the Nursing Home Quality Initiative. I appreciated your comments and your work to make this Initiative as effective as possible in improving care for beneficiaries.



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From: Julius Hobson

Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:13 PM

To: Julius_Hobson@ama-assn.org; Stacey_Hughes@AML.Senate.gov;

Amy.Hall@house.gov; Chrisney, Adam; Taylor, Bridgett; Bjorklund, Cybele;

White, Joel; McManus, John; Whitlock, Rodney

Cc: MossD@ada.org; Dean_Rosen@frist.senate.gov; Traub, Jon; Walters, Stacie





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NEW INITIATIVE TO REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES ANNOUNCED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is establishing a five-year program that creates eight new Centers to address health disparities research. Each Center involves a partnership between the schools of nursing of two or three universities -- those with established research programs that focus on health disparities, and those that are developing research programs in this area and have a significant number of minority nursing students.



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November 19, 2002

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for marketing the NT-proBNP, a new laboratory test for use as an aid in diagnosing congestive heart failure.



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2002

(202) 514-2007

WWW.USDOJ.GOV

TDD (202) 514-1888

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALLEGES 4 HOSPITALS IN CALIFORNIA & MISSOURI

SUBMITTED FALSE MEDICARE CLAIMS



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