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Counteracting Ebola Stress

It is hard to escape the stories about ebola today. As the country and individual states scramble to form public health policy, media reports of health care worker exposures are emerging daily. The latest, a nurse in Texas, triggers the question “Just how contagious is this?” and now a possible exposure in Braintree, MA. As psychiatric nurses working in health care facilities and seeing multicultural clients in a multicultural city, these are important times to get educated about actual risks and preventative practices.

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October 13, 2014 No Comments

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) is a federal law that generally prevents group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits from imposing less favorable benefit limitations on those benefits than on medical/surgical benefits.

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October 8, 2014 No Comments

Transform Deep Brain Stimulation – Mass General Hospital

Published on Jul 29, 2014
TRANSFORM DBS is a collaborative project between physicians and scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, Draper Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The goal of the project is to develop a deep brain stimulation device that can help treat patients with refractory psychiatric conditions that are insufficiently treated by currently available medication and therapy. We are focusing on conditions of particular relevance to our community of warfighters and returning veterans including posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, major depression, anxiety, substance abuse and chronic pain. For more information visit: http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pres…

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October 4, 2014 No Comments

Can the Damaged Brain Repair Itself?

After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair doesn’t happen quickly enough to allow recovery from degenerative conditions like motor neuron disease (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS). Siddharthan Chandran walks through some new techniques using special stem cells that could allow the damaged brain to rebuild faster.

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October 4, 2014 No Comments

Payment Reform: The Massachusetts Experiment

To some extent, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is based on the “Massachusetts experiment,” the health care legislation passed by the state in 2006, leading politicians on both sides of the political aisle to claim it as a success or failure.

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October 4, 2014 No Comments

Our Purpose

Provide a presence and testimony as needed at the State House on bills pertinent to our professional work Consistent tracking of legislation relevant to the

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September 25, 2014 No Comments

RESOURCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES

Resource organizations, affiliates and services … Accreditation ANCC Home Page Home page for American Nurses Credentialling Center Continuing Education Optum-Provider Express is pleased to present its

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September 25, 2014 No Comments