Healthcare Chart December, 2008

Healthcare Chart December, 2008 PUBLICATIONS Nursing              AACN Career Options 2009 – Issue features: Beacon Award Recipients AANA Journal – February issue features: Focus on Clinical, Research, and Review Articles Advance for Nurses – December 8/11 issue features: Advance Extra! Critical Care; December 22/29 issue features: What Makes Nurses Tick Survey Results; Trends & Issues: Nurse Faculty Working as Staff Nurses Advance for Nurse Practitioners – January issue features: Professional Update; Pediatrics: Eye and Vision Assessment; Geriatrics: Vitamin for Older Adults AORN Journal – February issue features: AORN Congress Issue; Bonus distribution at the 56th Annual AORN Congress Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing – Cancer Research in the Community; A Closer Look: Translational Research Home Healthcare Nurse – February issue features: Home Infusion Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing – January/February issue - Free 4 color on ½ page or larger Journal of Emergency Nursing – January issue features: Convention Program Issue to ENA Leadership Challenge; Bonus distribution at the ENA Leadership Challenge Med/Surg Nursing – February issue features: Nurse Executive & Nurse Faculty Issue; Bonus distribution at the AONE Convention NurseWeek – January Heartland issue features: 2009 Kick Off Issue; Bonus distribution at NW Career Fairs in Tampa FL & Pasadena, CA Nursing2008 – January issue features: Psychiatric RN – January issue features: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios; ICU Nutrition; Neuropathic Pain Physician  Advance for Physician Assistants – January/February issue is distributed at the Pri-Med South; Dermatology Nurses Association (DNA)  American Family Physician – Buy 5 consecutive issues, get 6th free  American Journal of Cardiology – 15% discount on ¼ page ads or larger  Anesthesiology News – January issue focuses on the Anesthetic Effects on the Developing Brain: Insights from Epidemiology  Annals of Vascular Surgery – January issue is distributed at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy meeting  Cardiology Today – January issue focuses on meeting coverage from the Radiological Society of North America conference  Contemporary Surgery – Buy 5 ads, get 6th at half price  Journal of Family Practice – Buy 5 ads, get the 6th at half price or buy 11 ads and get the 12th one free  Journal of Pediatrics – Run your ad 3 times and receive 45% off the 3rd run  Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology - January issue is distributed at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy meeting  New England Journal of Medicine – Run your ad 3 times and receive your 4th ad for free  Oncology Times – Buy 3 issues, get the 4th Free      Ophthalmic Surgery – Buy 2 ads, get 3rd free Radiology Today – January 12th issue focuses on Cardiac Imaging The Group Practice Journal – January issue focuses on Health Law The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network – January issue focuses on Bladder Cancer Thoracic Surgery News – January issue is distributed at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting and at the American Heart Association AARC Times – February issue features: Pediatric Smoking: Prevention and Intervention; Bonus distribution at the AAAAI Convention Advance for Nurse Practitioners – January issue features: Professional Update; Pediatrics: Eye and Vision Assessment Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists – December 8 issue features: Swallowing Problems; Pediatric Swallowing Disorders; Feeding Disorders in Premature Babies; December 29 issue features: Best of 2008; Language Delays in Young Children Pediatrics    Allied Health       ADHI Health Data Matrix – February issue features: Education: To Infinity and Beyond: A Long-Term Plan for Education; Clinical Medicine: Cardiovascular Advance for Health Information Professionals – December 15 issue features: 2008 Salary Survey; Best of the Web 2008; December 29 issue features: Best of 2008 Advance for Imaging and Radiation Therapy – December 8 issue features: MRI Supplement; December 22 issue features: Special RSNA ’08 Wrap-up Issue Advance for Occupational Therapy – December 8 issue features: Pacific Regional Supplement; December 22 issue features: Best of 2008; Self Analysis for Leadership and Management Skills Advance for PTs & PT Assistants – December 15 issue features: East North Central Regional Recruitment Supplement; December 29 issue features: End of the Year Special Issue; 2008 Salary Survey Update Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists – December 8 issue features: Swallowing Problems; December 15 issue features: Assessing Communication Disorders; December 22 issue features: Best of the Web; December 29 issue features: Best of 2008 OT Practice – January 19 issue features: Regional Employment Outlook; Bonus distribution at NMEDA Radiologic Technology – January/February issue features: Thyroid Disease; Mammography; Multidrug-resistant Bacterial Infections Radiology Today – December 15 issue features: 3 Things to Watch in 2009; New Technology Showcase Therapy Times – December 9 issue features: Acupuncture; ASHA Conference Recap; December 16 issue features: Getting the Most out of Your Association Membership; December 23 issue features: The Year Ahead; AARC Conference Recap; January 6 issue features: The Obesity Epidemic Today in PT – December 15 issue features: Special Edition – PT Excellence Awards      Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology     24/7 – January issue features: Choosing Department Destiny; Education; Special Supplement: 2009 Buyer’s Guide Edition BioPharm – January issue features: 3rd Annual Salary Survey; Supplement: Guide to Vaccine Development and Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Executive – January issue features: 9th Annual Sales Force Survey; Bonus distribution at CBI Events Pharmaceutical Technology – January issue features: Outsourcing Services; February issue features: Advances in Pharmaceutical Analysis General Healthcare  AARC Times – February issue features: Pediatric Smoking: Prevention and Intervention; Bonus distribution at the AAAAI Convention  Advance for Medical Lab – December 15 issue features: Best of Print 2008; Recruitment/Retention; December 29 issue features: Best of the Web 2008; Recruitment/Retention  Anesthesiology News – January issue features: ICU Sedation; Bonus distribution at the Society of Critical Care Medicine  Applied Clinical Trials – January issue features: Clinical Trial Strategies; Supplement: Partnerships with Central Labs, ECG & Imaging Labs; Bonus distribution at IIR Clinical Trials Congress; DIA Conference for Electronic Data Management  For The Record – December 8 issue features: ICD-10 Update; Reducing Deliverables; December 22 issue features: Healthcare 2008 – A Review; Biometrics; January 5 issue features: Healthcare 2009-A Preview  Health Management Technology – February issue features: Decision Support; Hardware: Mobile Computing; Bonus distribution at HIMSS  hfm – January issue features: Innovation and Collaboration; Pension Funding; Bonus distribution: HFMA’s Region 11 Symposium  Journal of AHIMA – February issue features: Consulting and Outsourcing Guide  Medical Laboratory Observer – January issue features: Where will point-of-care testing (POCT) be in 5 years?; Bonus distribution at LabAutomation 2009  MGMA Connexion – February issue features: Financial Management  Modern Healthcare – December 15 issue features: 16th Annual Spirit of Excellence Awards; December 22/29 issue features: 10th Annual By the Numbers; January 5 issue features: Strictly Finance; January 12 issue features: Information Edge  Orthopedics Today – January issue distributed at Orthopedics Hawaii Meeting  Respiratory Care – January issue features: Non-Invasive Ventilation in Acute Care: Controversies and Emergency Concepts – Part 1  Today’s Dietitian – January issue features: Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition; Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition; Bonus distribution at Nutrition Wee The Journal News San Francisco Chronicle Healthcare Careers Health Care Sunday December 7 December 14 LAYOFFS Rosewood Center Owings Mills, MD Layoffs at the Rosewood Center will begin in January as the facility for developmentally disabled adults prepares to close next year, the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Saturday. Secretary John Colmers said his department is working to find other state jobs for employees and helping them with job training. "I recognize that this is a very difficult situation for many of our employees," Colmers said in a statement. "We have, and will continue to identify job openings, offer career training seminars, hold job fairs, and more so each of these employees remains in the workforce." Of 295 employees now at the facility, 88 will be laid off in mid-January and the rest will be laid off between January and June 30, when the facility closes. All of the employees will receive a notice with details their personal layoff date, said Renata Henry, deputy secretary for Behavioral Health and Disabilities. The Associated Press Saint Luke's Health System Kansas City, MO Saint Luke's Health System has given severance packages to 61 management and administrative employees. The job cutbacks, which didn't affect any direct patientcare positions, affected less than 1 percent of the system's workforce of 8,411. "It was an effort to manage expenses. It had nothing to do with a decline in patients," said Kerry O'Connor, director of public relations for the hospital system. The layoffs occurred in the corporate offices, at St. Luke's Hospital, St. Luke's Cancer Institute, and Cushing Memorial Hospital in Leavenworth. The health system includes 11 area hospitals. In another cost-reduction effort, St. Luke's Hospital will close its cranial and craniofacial program at the end of this year. The Kansas City Star Shasta Regional Medical Center Redding, CA The financially troubled Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding is laying off 150 nurses and hospital employees, about a fifth of its total staff. Some employees were told they could reapply for their positions. Shasta Regional Chief Executive Phil Dionne says the cuts were simply a reflection of patient volumes that area hospitals have been experiencing. The 246-bed hospital has been struggling to keep up with its bills. A lender has already declared the hospital in default. Dionne says Shasta Regional would have closed if Prime Healthcare Services of Southern California had not stepped in as the hospital's new managers. The Associated Press The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, still reeling from Hurricane Ike, is laying off some 3,800 people. In a news release, the UT Board of Regents said it was forced to make the job cuts because the teaching hospital was running out of money. "UTMB's current rate of expenditures, including the continuation of wages and benefits for faculty and staff who have not returned to work, exceeds revenues by almost $40 million per month," the statement said. "UTMB will deplete its financial resources and reserves in approximately three months, leaving the institution in the untenable position of having no funds to continue to operate." Ike caused nearly $710 million in losses to UTMB when it hit the island in September and officials have said that only about $100 million of the damage is covered by insurance. The Associated Press Valley View Regional Hospital Ada, OK More than 100 employees will be laid off from Valley View Regional Hospital in Ada today, a result of payment problems that reach beyond the southeast Oklahoma site. The non-profit Pontotoc County hospital has run into financial troubles in part because of delays in receiving reimbursements from Medicare and private insurance companies, Chief Executive Officer Ron Webb said. The 200-bed hospital is cutting 127 out of about 800 positions. Doctors and nurses who work on patient floors were spared. Webb doesn't expect the cuts to affect patient care. Most cuts are in administration and support. A few jobs already are vacant. Those who are affected will receive one week of pay for every year of employment, up to 12 years, and area hospitals have been contacted in an effort to help laid-off workers find new jobs. The Oklahoman UPCOMING HEALTHCARE CONFERENCES & SEMINARS Radiologic Society of North America – RSNA 2008 November 30-December 5 Chicago, IL Medical Device Clinical Research & Reimbursement: 2nd Track Conference December 8-9 Chicago, IL World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress December 8-10 Washington, DC 17th Annual Stanford Winter Diagnostic Imaging Update January 5-9 Beaver Creek, CO Angiogenesis & Lymphangiogenesis in Cancer January 6-11 Big Sky, MT Breast Imaging in Paradise January 11-16 Kona, HI Mobilizing Cellular Immunity for Cancer Therapy January 11-16 Snowbird, UT American Course on Drug Development and Regulatory Sciences January 12-15 Washington, DC Endocrinology & Rheumatology: The Most Useful Topics in Both Specialties January 12-16 Sarasota, FL Cardiovascular MR & CT Fellowship January 12-16 Philadelphia, PA Musculoskeletal MR Palm Beach 2009 January 13-17 Palm Beach, FL Anesthesiology Update 2009 January 14-19 Konai Kai, HI Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium January 15-17 San Francisco, CA Winter Total Joint Symposium January 15-17 Vail, CO Radiation Therapy Oncology Group January 15-18 New Orleans, LA American Academy of Neurology Regional Conference January 16-18 Orlando, FL Clinical Endocrinology for Primary Care January 16-18 Las Vegas, NV Diabetes Education for Primary Care Physicians January 17 Long Beach, CA Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology in 2009 January 17-22 Snowmass, CO 17th Medicine Meets Virtual Reality January 19-22 Long Beach, CA Emergency Medicine: Practicing According to the Evidence January 19-23 Sarasota, FL 2009 CSA Winter Hawaiian Seminar January 19-23 Maui, HI 2009 Annual Meeting of American Association of Pediatric Urologists (AAPU) January 20-24 Crested Butte, CO 2009 Multidisciplinary Head & Neck Cancer Symposium January 22-24 Chandler, AZ Sleep Medicine 2009 January 22-25 Scottsdale, AZ 2009 Semi-Annual Meeting of the Gynecologic Oncology Group January 22-25 Garden Grove, CA ASA Conference on Practice Management January 23-25 Phoenix, AZ Frontiers in Thyroid Cancer: ATA Guidelines in Clinical Practice January 23-24 Miami, FL 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) January 26-31 San Diego, CA 45th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) January 26-28 San Francisco, CA Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Review and Update January 26-30 Sarasota, FL 25th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine January 27-31 Honolulu, HI 11th Annual Conference on Dialysis, Advances in CKD 2009 January 28-30 Las Vegas, NV Practical Pediatrics CME Course January 29-February 1 Lake Tahoe, CA Highlights of ASH® (American Society of Hematology) January 30-31 Phoenix, AZ Hysterectomy Advances January 30-February 2 Ft Lauderdale, FL 38th Critical Care Congress January 31-February 4 Nashville, TN TRENDS Hospitals and Schools Preserve Jobs By Partrick McGEEHAN, New York Times Even as layoffs at one giant company after another raise concerns that New York City’s economy is shrinking fast, the hospitals and universities that dominate the city’s large nonprofit sector are generally holding firm and accounting for a growing share of private-sector jobs. Instead of laying off large numbers of employees, which banks like Citigroup are doing, the city’s hospitals and universities are trying to weather the economic storm without significant cuts. That approach could shift the balance among the city’s biggest private-sector employers and pose problems for city officials who are scrambling to fill a growing budget gap. Before the financial crisis began unfolding last year, the ranks of the city’s biggest employers already included several large hospitals and universities, which, because of their nonprofit status, do not pay corporate or property taxes. Now, with several of the biggest for-profit companies eliminating thousands of jobs, the city is becoming more dependent on nonprofit employers like New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University. ―The phenomenon of hospitals and health care systems representing a large part of a region’s employment is not unusual,‖ said Dr. Herbert Pardes, the president and chief executive of New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, which operates New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He pointed to Birmingham, Ala., and Rochester, Minn., as examples. But no civic leader in New York wants to look to much smaller cities as models for a vast metropolis. Large companies with concentrations of employees serve as crucial attractions to major cities, economists say. ―They help provide New York City with its unique human capital characteristics and provide a range of employment opportunities,‖ said James Parrott, the chief economist of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a research group. Even after the implosion this year of some of the pillars of its most profitable industry, New York will still have a considerably more diverse economy than most cities, said Steve Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a research group. ―This city, despite its reliance on Wall Street, is nowhere near as vulnerable as many American cities that have seen their big employer or employers disintegrate,‖ Mr. Malanga said. ―One thinks of Kodak and Rochester, or Detroit and the Big Three.‖ City officials said they did not maintain a list of the city’s largest private-sector employers; they routinely cite a list that is published annually by Crain’s New York Business. The latest edition of that list, compiled last year, was studded with some global financial companies and even more nonprofits, including the operators of many of the city’s biggest hospitals. Of the 16 companies and organizations that employed more than 10,000 people in 2005, there were three Wall Street companies, six hospital operators, two universities and two utilities. The three banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley — have each eliminated several hundred jobs this year. The only other for-profit companies among the 16 were Macy’s and Time Warner. Macy’s had 17,000 workers in New York City in 2005, according to Crain’s. Now, Macy’s employs about 14,500 people at its stores in the five boroughs and at the headquarters of its East division in Manhattan, according to Elina Kazan, a company spokeswoman. Time Warner has eliminated about 900 jobs in the city, said Edward I. Adler, a company spokesman. Those cuts will reduce the company’s employment in the city to about 12,000, he said. As a result, at least two hospital operators — New York-Presbyterian and Continuum Health Partners — have more employees in the city than Macy’s or Time Warner. New York-Presbyterian has about 20,000 people, including doctors, nurses, lab technicians and executives. Continuum, which operates Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, employed about 15,500 workers at last count, a spokesman said. Columbia University, the largest school in the city, has about 14,100 employees, according to a spokesman, Robert Hornsby. The university has not had any layoffs lately but in a Nov. 11 letter to the faculty and staff, its president, Lee C. Bollinger, said the school had created a hiring review committee ―that will look carefully at every new or vacant position in the central administration before allowing it to be filled.‖ It is the health care industry, however, that has traditionally been less sensitive to swings in the overall economy because the sick and injured require care in good times and bad. Although employment in health services has declined slightly in the city in the past few months, the city’s biggest hospitals have avoided significant layoffs so far, according to Brian Conway, a spokesman for the Greater New York Hospital Association. But Mr. Conway added that hospital executives were concerned that proposed state budget cuts would force them to reduce services and, in turn, eliminate jobs. Each of the financial giants has announced at least one broad layoff this year. Just last week, Citigroup alarmed city officials with the announcement of a much bigger layoff than had been expected, a plan to reduce its total employment by 52,000 in the next seven months. Citigroup had been the biggest for-profit employer in the city, with its rival bank, JPMorgan, running a close second, according to Crain’s. (Executives of the banks would not reveal just how many employees they have in any particular location or business unit.) Those banks are still among the city’s largest employers, but their payrolls are much smaller than they were at the peak of the last financial boom. JPMorgan is in the process of eliminating about 3,000 jobs in its investment banking unit, which is based in the city. Despite the cuts, James Brown, an analyst with the New York State Department Association, said he expected the big banks to continue to be pillars of the city’s economy. ―There are so many very large financial companies in New York City,‖ Mr. Brown said. ―Even if you considered that they were going to be significantly downsizing, they would still be major employers.‖ Mr. Malanga said the city could continue to thrive even if its biggest for-profit employers were smaller in the future. ―The issue is not so much who are going to be the large employers on the other side of this meltdown,‖ he said, ―but will the city continue to be a home for creating entrepreneurial activity.‖ NATIONAL OBSERVANCES Safe Toys and Gifts Month Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis Month National Aplastic Anemia and MDS Awareness Week (1-7) World AIDS Day (1) International Day of Disabled Persons (3) National Hand washing Awareness Week (7-13)