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5 Plead Guilty in Nurse Diploma Scheme; Why 10 Hospitals Have Been at Risk of Losing CMS Funding · Becker’s Healthcare - Clinical Leadership Podcast

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news spree for May 16th.
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  First five defendants are pleading guilty to fraud conspiracy after
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  their alleged involvement in a nurse diploma scheme.
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  A district judge and federal court will the five on July 27th,
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  they could each face up to 20 years in prison during their guilty plea
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  hearings.
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  Four of the five also admitted to soliciting and recruiting people who sought
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  nursing credentials.
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  They also admitted to working with Palm Beach School of Nursing to create and
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  distribute fraudulent diplomas and transcripts.
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  All defendants profited from the scam.
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  These are five of the dozens charged for their participation in this scheme.
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  Second, a commentary published today in ins of internal medicine says,
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  mass shouldn't leave healthcare settings. Two.
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  Infectious disease physicians are the authors.
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  They say masking can be a patient safety measure,
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  especially with elderly and immunocompromised patients.
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  This comes a month after researchers published findings from a large London
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  hospital that showed removing mask rules did not result in a significant change.
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  Third,
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  uc Irvine is integrated wellbeing and compassion fatigue into its curriculum.
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  Nursing students are learning about these topics in a course like compassion,
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  caring, and communication with vulnerable populations,
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  as well as the leadership class where students develop modules for practicing
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  nurses to mitigate compassion fatigue.
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  The schools also considering whether students may have difficult and lengthy
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  classes back to back, and if there's room to separate them.
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  This could also impact traffic patterns and commuting times.
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  Fourth,
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  physicians at Dell Children's Medical Center are exiting the hospital amid a
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  state probe into the hospital's transgender care practices.
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  The physicians were part of its adolescence medicine clinic.
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  The hospital is part of Ascension.
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  Texas is investigating whether the hospital is illegally performing gender
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  transition surgeries on minors. In April,
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  the right wing group Project Betas issued a report.
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  It alleges the hospital was offering puberty blockers and other gender affirming
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  care.
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  Dell Children said it would conduct a thorough review since it prohibits surgery
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  and hormone therapy as treatments for children with gender dysphoria.
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  The hospital did not specify how many physicians are leaving the clinic or when
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  fifth year 10 hospitals or health systems that have been at risk of losing Summa
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  funding over the last year due to non-compliance with its policies.
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  Brinmar Hospital in North Carolina, St. Michael Medical Center in Washington,
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  Wilson Medical Center in North Carolina. St. Francis Health System in Oklahoma,
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  the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City. John Muir's,
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  Walnut Creek Medical Center in California.
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  Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland.
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  New Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina.
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  University of North Carolina Medical Center and Eleanor Slater Hospital in
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  Rhode Island. For the full list of reasons, visit becker's hospital review.com.
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