by James Blair | Jul 26, 2013 | Accreditation, Corruption, Oversight, Public Health
 According to a recent article published by the Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mandated that Rabbit owners must develop a disaster plan for their small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha. Experts were...
by James Blair | Jul 22, 2013 | Explosive, Posts - Manmade Hazards and Issues, Public Health, Terrorism
We have written for years about how vulnerable hospitals are as “soft targets” for Terrorists, and it remains true despite the fact that we in the US have yet to suffer from a coordinated assault on a healthcare facility. We have seen multiple attacks over...
by James Blair | Jul 17, 2013 | Biological, Chemical / Biological, Terrorism
Readers: This post was originally published in the Washington Examiner, 10/22/2009. As with many issues that we cover, there has been little in the way of  progress. There is new concern for an old threat, Bioterrorism. Post 9/11, threat of non-state...
by James Blair | Jul 1, 2013 | Accreditation, Corruption, Fraud and Abuse, Long Term Care, Oversight, Public Health
Based on good responses and comments on LinkedIn and our site, we went back to our 2006 contributions to the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, Monograph, Volume 26, Issue 2 to review those comments relative to the Religion and the end of Life. Although, there was...
by James Blair | Jun 29, 2013 | Accreditation, Corruption, Fraud and Abuse, Long Term Care, Oversight, Public Health
The issue of “End of Life Decisions†and when and who makes those existential calls are and have been the subject of considerable controversy, and which I have watched over many years. In 2006, I was a participant in an American Society...
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