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  • A Growing Healthcare Challenge

    A Growing Healthcare Challenge

    Nurse Staffing Study Provides Insight Into Shortage Across U.S. and Florida by HEATHER MACHOVINA The Avant Healthcare Professionals 2021 Trends in Nurse Staffing Study analyzes the status of registered nurse (RN) job vacancies in the U.S. and the overall welfare of RN staff. It evaluates the training of new nurses, compares the costs of outsourcing…

  • Pop Quiz: With COVID-19 Vaccines Now Widely Available, Don’t Let Myths Deter You

    Pop Quiz: With COVID-19 Vaccines Now Widely Available, Don’t Let Myths Deter You

    COVID vaccines are being administered all over the country and the world as quickly as possible in an effort to halt the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks. While vaccinations are our best bet to allow us to “get back to normal” as soon as possible, there are many myths and a lot of misinformation about…

  • Sharing Is Caring

    Sharing Is Caring

    Central Florida Health Care Explains the Importance of the Health Information Exchange  by TERESA SCHIFFER We are living in an age of miracles when it comes to medical science. Modern healthcare professionals have a wealth of tools at their disposal to help patients recover from diseases that were once almost always fatal and improve the…

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  • Get health STAT

    Get health STAT

      Weighing In On National Statistics   A Taxing Diet 52 Percent of U.S. adults say it’s easier to do their own taxes than it is to figure out how to eat healthy. Source: International Food Information Council Foundation’s 2012 Food & Health online survey of 1,000 adults   This speaks true close to home as…

  • Eating in or dining out: Realistic steps to keep your diet resolution

    Eating in or dining out: Realistic steps to keep your diet resolution

      Someone long ago said half a loaf is better than none. Half a loaf instead of a whole loaf is better for your waistline. By now, some of us have made the well-intended (but weak) resolutions for eating better, and either broken or forgotten them. But some forethought can make weak resolutions strong enough…

  • Healthcare report

    Healthcare report

     Three Things You Need to Consider About the Affordable Care Act The next phase of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—PPACA—is soon to begin, and some people are understandably puzzled. One of the biggest issues is that even those in the insurance industry are not quite sure how everything will play out. However, the…

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