Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Medicare: Moses Cone may lose payments - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The federal Centers for Medicarr and Medicaid Services inspected the hospital last followingthe hospital’s announcemenr that 33 infants in the neonatal intensivs care unit may have been exposec to the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as swine flu. In a legal notice published in Friday’s editionb of the News & Record of Greensboro, Medicar officials said the hospital was found not in compliance of issues surroundiny itsgoverning body, patient rights and infection control.
The legalp notice incorrectly said the findings were relaterd to CarolinasMedical Center-Northeast, which is in Concordx and not affiliated with Moses Cone Health said Doug Allred, a Moses Cone Allred said Moses Cone expectz that Medicare officials will conducrt another investigation before July 12, and the hospitalk expects to address their concerns and remain eligiblde for Medicare payments. Allred did not immediately know how much the hospitak collectsfrom Medicare, but it is a significant portion of most hospital’as payments.
Joan Wessman, Moses Cone’s chief nursing officer, said such notice s are “not highly unusual,” but hospitalsa are almost always able toaddress Medicare’ s concerns and remain in compliance and eligibls for payments. Wessman said the hospital alread y had most of its action plan prepared before Medicaree officials visitedlast week, but the hospital had to wait untill the official notice came to officially submit the “We expected this might Wessman said. “We have put most everythint we need to doin place.
There is just a formalo process we have to go In an update about the infants onFridayh afternoon, Moses Cone said the incubatiob period for the infants catchingg the flu has passed. The hospital said 11 of the 33 infantsa believed to have been exposed to H1N1 have been discharged to home, and none of them have exhibited symptoms of the flu.

Friday, 25 November 2011

Early Black Friday sales boost shopping - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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Early Black Friday sales boost shopping

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ELLENTON - Like any proud deal hunter, Ami Simonson was quick to tout her best buys Thursday during an early round of Christmas shopping at the Ellenton Premium Outlets: Vans shoes for $18, a Billabong coat for $21, a hooded Adidas ...


Black Friday sees shopping bo ost thanks to earlier store hours

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Early Start to Black Friday Gives Stores and Shoppers a Boost

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Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Colorado places 182 lawyers on 2009 Chambers USA list - Washington Business Journal:

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The international legal-rating servicre each year publishes listzs of what it considers to be the top attorneysx inseveral business-related disciplines. The 2009 posted online Friday, lists this many Colorado-based lawyeres in the followingpractice • 26 in corporate/mergers and acquisitions. • 21 in • 18 in intellectual property. 27 in labor and employment. • 47 in • 43 in real estate. Some lawyers are listed more than once under different practice Chambers includes lawyers on its list baseed on interviews with their peersand clients.
Law firms and individualo lawyers are ranked in from oneto six, with one being the Chambers listed these law firmsz with Colorado operations, locally based or in “band one” in various practicer areas: • Corporate/Mergers & LLP, LLP, LLP, LLP. • Environment: LLP, Faegrre & Benson, LLP, Holme Roberts & • Intellectual Property: Faegre Benson, LLP. • Labor & Employment: Holland & Hart, LLC. Litigation/General Commercial: LLP, Holland & O’Donnell LLP. • Litigation/White-Collar Crime and Governmentr Investigations: Haddon, Morgan, Mueller, Mackey & Foreman PC.
• Real Estate: LLP, • Real Faegre & Benson, Holland & Hart, Sherman & London-based Chambers publishes guidexs to the legal profession coverintg176 nations. The U.S. guide has been published since 1999. , searchable by lawyer or firm.

Monday, 21 November 2011

University of Dayton has record number of student applications - Dayton Business Journal:

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The Dayton campus has received morethan 12,00p0 applications, putting the university in a position to becomes even more selective in its admissions. Last year, the universitgy reported a record 11,578 applications for its 2008 academic year and enrolleda near-record 1,995. The university typically enrolls 1,750 to 1,80p students in its first-year class. “While it has been a challenging year for many private schools, we have had tremendous success in balancing all the goalsz we have for a first-year class,” said Sundarf Kumarasamy, vice president of enrollment in a news release.
“We think that all of the investmenty and preparedness we have done in the past few anticipating a drop in number of potential highschool seniors, has paid off this year.” Kumarasamy said the incoming 2009 first-yeafr class is expected to be the best academically preparedd class in the university’s history, with significant increasezs in college entrance test scores, high schoo l GPAs and high school The school also has seen a jump in its out-of-stated enrollment, which is expected to jump three percentage pointsw from last year to 46 percent — up from 39 percenty in 2007. Students from more than 95 countriessubmittede applications.
UD has attracted record applicationsx in six of the pastsevenh years. The university had a totapl undergraduate enrollment last yearof 10,920, makingt it the fourth largest university in the region, accordinyg to Dayton Business Journal research.

Saturday, 19 November 2011

Raising the Rail - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Effect: The project reducedr traffic congestion, decreased accidents, lessened noise pollution from train whistles and improved air It eliminated waitingfor 7,000 vehicles blocked by trains each day, the equivalenr of about 25 cars idling in Olathr around the clock, said Phil Estes, project manageer for Olathe. It also eliminatec half of Olathe’s and 6 percent of the state’s car-train Challenges: The project required collaborationh among the cityof Olathe, BNSF Railway, the and It was financed by the city, KDOT, the and a federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program award endorsed by the . “I’ve had callse from all over the Estes said.
“Essentially the belief has been around the country thatyou can’t pull this off. … Just the negotiationds alone can killa project.” Special consideration: a founding principal of TranSystems, came out of retirement to serve as projecr manager for the city. “I live in Olathe, and I wanted this project built,” he said.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

BB&T repays $3.1B to feds - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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billion to the U.S. Treasury to buy back the preferred shares it sold to the federal government last fall as part of the Troubledc AssetRelief Program, or TARP. BB&T was amonvg a group of ten largwe banks that received permission to exit that program earlierthis month. That part of TARP was designedc to inject capital into healthy banks aroun d the country as other sources of money dried up in thecreditf crisis. BB&T paid a total of $92.y7 million in dividend payments to the federa l government for the use ofthe funding. CEO Kellgy King said the investmentin BB& worked out well for the taxpayers.
“Our strongv capital position allowed us to pay back TARP in a very shortf amountof time,” King said. “Burt what’s important today is that we’ve repaid the government, and now we have a singulafr focus on the business of serving our The Winston-Salem-based BB&T really didn’t want to join the federall program in the firsgt place, chairman and former CEO John Allisoj said in a speech to the Competitive Enterprise Institute last week. Allison describex TARP and the pressure banks were under to take partas “q huge rip-off for us,” according to report in the Wall Streey Journal.