To get an indication of the national magnitude of hospital- or health care-acquired infections (HAIs) consider the short list of "winnable battles" championed by Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
An arbitrator ordered a Kearney attorney to pay more than $460,000 to a Kansas man whom he represented in a failed wrongful termination suit. Matthew Hawks, of Hiawatha, Kan., was an investor reporter, compiling reports for business clients of Systems & Services Technologies Inc. and JP Morgan Chase, when his young son was diagnosed with E. coli poisoning from contaminated meat in July 2007. Fearing an outbreak of the highly contagious food-borne illness, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services ordered the Hawks family quarantined, necessitating that Hawks take a leave of absence from his job.
The State of Missouri could potentially be on the hook for major money in the wake of a Western District Court of Appeals decision regarding the Personal Care Assistance program for disabled adults. The appeals court determined in Elisha Jensen v. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services that the state improperly took weekend pay away from caregivers for a couple of years. And Kansas City attorney Kimberly Jo Sternemann estimates one of her clients is due several thousand dollars in back pay.
The waiting list for home care evaluations is being systematically reduced, and more people are being hired to speed the process along, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said yesterday. Spokeswoman Jacqueline Lapine responded in an email to allegations from Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder that delays were endangering the senior citizens and people with disabilities who depend on the service. She said 86 new employees are engaged in the effort to cut through the backlog, and another 19 will be hired, not including supervisors and support staff.
Aragon v. Department of Health and Senior Services (MLW No. 62184/ Case No. WD72751 - 18 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Martin, J.) Administrative
Starting this month, nursing home administrators in Missouri have a new resource they can use when trying to figure out how to meet state and federal regulations and keep up with trends to improve the quality of long-term care. The University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing has launched a Nursing Home Leadership Coaching Service with funding provided through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Dave Walker, a retired nursing home director from Jackson, has been tapped to provide the coaching services.
JEFFERSON CITY -- More than two months after taking over in-home- care assessments on an emergency basis, many of the more than 1,100 people considered "urgent cases" are still waiting for help, the director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said today. In a testy hearing that saw one lawmaker walk out because he could not get a direct answer, Director Margaret Donnelly explained how the department has handled a massive backlog left when the Indiana-based contractor Syncare quit in September.
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services today fired a Medicaid contractor harshly criticized by clients, providers and legislators for failing so badly that the department had to assign 33 state workers to help it catch up with a backlog of work. The department issued a statement this morning that it had terminated its contract with SynCare LLC, an Indianapolis firm that in May took over screenings for 50,000 Medicaid patients receiving in-home care services.
For the second time in less than one week, the director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services accused the state's attorney general of having a conflict of interest. In a letter to Jay Nixon, Jane Drummond wrote that the attorney general does not support her department's interests in defending itself in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid- Missouri.
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