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Mississippi Hospital Selects Evident and Trubridge to Better Manage Patient Care and Improve Financial Operations
February 16, 2021 GMT
MOBILE, Ala. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 16, 2021
CPSI (NASDAQ: CPSI), a community healthcare solutions company, announced today that Trace Regional Hospital has selected the fully integrated cloud-hosted Evident electronic health record (EHR) solution, which includes both a clinical and a financial suite of products, along with the Evident provider EHR to support improved ambulatory care in its three affiliated clinics. In addition, Trace Regional Hospital purchased Remittance Management, Eligibility Verification and Medical Necessity Checking, part of the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) product suite offered through CPSI subsidiary, TruBridge.
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Agape Care Group Opens Its First Georgia Location
February 16, 2021 GMT
AUGUSTA, Ga. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 16, 2021
Agape Care Georgia has opened an office in Augusta, Georgia, marking its first location in the state. The Augusta location will be the cornerstone of Agape Care Group’s Georgia network as the organization continues to provide the highest-quality hospice care for patients throughout the Southeast. Agape Care Georgia will serve 12 counties through this office: Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes.
PARIS, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Though it affects more than 140,000 children each year, noma remains a little-known disease among the general public. Derived from the Greek word “nomein,” meaning “to devour,” the disease destroys the face, resulting in the death of the child in 90% of cases. In order to fight this scourge, in 2019, former footballer Roger Milla set up the Noma Fund association. Together with former internationals such as Joseph-Antoine Bell, François Omam-Biyik, Patrick Mboma, Rigobert Song, and Jacques Songo’o, he is today launching a global appeal for donations to save the lives of those called “the children without faces.”
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Kindred Healthcare Endorses Research Report on Value of Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals in COVID-19 Pandemic
February 16, 2021 GMT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 16, 2021
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Benjamin A. Breier, Kindred’s Chief Executive Officer, said, “Today’s ATI Advisory report underscores the unique value that LTAC hospitals bring to the nation’s most medically complex patients, and the solutions that they continue to deliver to patients and hospital partners throughout the public health emergency.”
According to the report: “Our research indicates that the clinical capabilities in LTAC hospitals have been particularly well suited to extend [short-term acute care hospital] capacity and fill COVID-related gaps in the [post-acute care] continuum.”
After weeks of complaints about Pennsylvania’s halting COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Health Department on Friday ordered providers to get shots into arms more quickly, offer more convenient scheduling and make