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Offshore Worker Fatality Rates Seven Times Higher Than U.S. Average, CDC Study Says - 0 views

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SIRS: Law Threatens Families' Privacy - 0 views

  • Alberta's proposed Children First Act will erode privacy rights and undermine Albertans' control over their own health and personal information, privacy commissioner Jill Clayton says.
  • government hasn't done enough to make sure those subject to the act
  • The proposed new legislation allows those who work with at-risk children to talk to one another about the people they serve; those on the list include child welfare workers, police, teachers and foster parents, among others. These front-line workers have consistently said rules that restrict them from
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  • sharing information make it harder to do what is right for kids in care.
  • privacy implications of the bill, known as Bill 25.
  • to be able to exercise your rights if you don't like it,
  • there can be a danger of information being collected and used for one purpose, and then appropriated and used for other secondary purposes."
  • that the law allows agencies to share information about children and families whenever they are "enabling or planning" to provide services
Mary Neumayer

SIRS: The Future of Reading: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? - 0 views

  • Internet has created a new kind of reading
  • children with dyslexia or other learning difficulties,
  • more comfortable to search and read online
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  • Reading skills are also valued by employers.
  • 90 percent of employers
  • very important" for workers with bachelor's degrees.
  • those who score higher on reading tests tend to earn higher incomes
  • home Internet access to low-income students
  • improve standardized reading test scores
  • Web readers are persistently weak at judging whether information is trustworthy
  • Web may be a better way to glean information.
Coby Gideon

Collision Repair School - 0 views

  • If you enjoy metalworking, painting and detailing, and the satisfaction of restoring vehicles, then you should definitely consider our Collision Refinishing Technology.
  • The refinishing courses will provide students with instruction in surface preparation and masking, spray gun operation, detailing, spot repair and blending techniques, corrosion protection, refinishing equipment, worker protection, hazardous materials, damage analysis and estimating, front section damage analysis, plastic welding, repair and refinishing.
ryan keely

SIRS: Affordable Care Act Will Impose New Burdens on Consumers, Businesses - 0 views

  • added costs rob companies of money to grow their businesses and hire new workers
  • replacing people with technology
Emily Brown

Student Edition - Document - 0 views

  • 10 million people
  • $26,096 for each person
  • $9,459 for home
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  • community-based services for each older person or adult with a physical disability.
  • Little relief is in sight for states'
  • long-term care (LTC) services,
  • them continue living at hom
  • e or in community-based settings
  • sort of care generally costs
  • "A state that offers Medicaid doesn't have the option of not paying for nursing facilities under Medicaid, while they do have control over whether to pay for home/community-based services,
  • long-term care financing and senior health insurance issues
  • could be as high as $140 billion
  • $60 billion of that sum would accrue to the states.
  • 25,000 people enrolled in Minnesota Senior H
  • ealth Options (MSHO),
  • Thomas von Sternberg, MD, HealthPartners
  • variety of creative contracts,
  • 40% in premiums.
  • 8% of the market, recently announced that it will halt new sales of LTC insurance.
  • LTC expenses.
  • Medicaid to cover additional
  • approximately $50 to $75 per day.
  • "This enhanced match is actually targeted to states that are furthest behind in these areas."
  • 20 years. She is based in Eugene, Ore.
  • Maryland,
  • New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Virginia and Tennessee.
  • LTC system that is proactive.
  • 75 members.
  • MCO relies on a mix of nurses
  • social workers to develop care plans for each person.
  • plus face-to-face
  • 20,000 people enrolled
  • 3,000 served by Amerigroup.
  • Since 1999
  • 34%."
  • 1,500 patients
  • 20,000
  • 449,000.
  • 2007,
  • 36 practices, reaching
  • 24 hours
  • LTC Medicaid,
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