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      <title>Good Press: AARC Members in the News</title>
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      <title>Help for Haiti: Respiratory Care Cares</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC is keeping close tabs on developments in Haiti and all the ways the respiratory community can and is helping with the relief efforts. Here are the first of our reports.]]></description>
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      <title>Winter Section Bulletins Online Now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC Specialty Sections have now published the Winter 2010 issues of their Bulletins online.]]></description>
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      <title>HHS Launches Web Site for Haiti Volunteers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new Department of Health and Human Services web site is providing much needed information to health care professionals who would like to volunteer to assist the victims of the Haitian earthquake.]]></description>
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      <title>Write to Congress for Better Pulmonary Care Services</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC is once again calling on respiratory therapists, their patients and their supporters to write to Congress to gain co-sponsors for the Medicare Pt B Respiratory Therapy Initiative (HR 1077 and S 343).]]></description>
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      <title>QRCR Open Enrollment Begins</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year again: hospitals, home care providers, and long-term care facilities have the opportunity to enroll/reenroll in the AARC’s Quality Respiratory Care Recognition (QRCR) program.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[See who’s been making news lately.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Represented at Opening of New Center</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Jan. 8, 2010, St. Mary’s Hospital celebrated the grand opening of a new pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation center named after Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, a national patient advocate for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Campaign.]]></description>
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      <title>New Concentrators Approved for Use on Aircraft</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If your patients need a portable oxygen concentrator (POC) when they travel by aircraft, you may be interested in knowing that, effective January 6, 2010 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) added four new POCs to the list of those devices they have determined are safe to carry on the plane as long as certain other standards are met.]]></description>
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      <title>National Influenza Vaccination Week—January 10–16, 2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Influenza vaccinations are still a key to further controlling outbreaks, even though we hear that cases of seasonal and H1N1 flu are slowing.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We have lots of newsmakers to share in this first Good Press edition of 2010.]]></description>
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      <title>More Updates on Pulmonary Rehab Benefit Available</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has posted instructions to its Medicare contractors on the new pulmonary rehabilitation program benefit that takes effect January 1, 2010. The instructions provide additional information and examples of how to bill for 2 sessions of PR per day that were not included in the final rules.]]></description>
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      <title>Pulmonary Community Loses Pioneering Physician</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The entire pulmonary community has been saddened by the death of Tom Petty, MD, FAARC. Dr. Petty passed away last Saturday, Dec. 12, at his home in Colorado following a long illness. While colleagues across the country and around the world mourn his loss, however, they are also celebrating his legacy, which included pioneering work on many of the treatments and modalities used in respiratory medicine today.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today AARC COO Tom Kallstrom welcomed 2009 International Fellow Yue-hua Yuan, director of the respiratory therapy department at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, China, to the AARC Executive Office in Irving, TX.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Who did what where? Take a look at the events and activities reported by your fellow AARC members.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Election Results Announced</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC elections concluded early this month and results have been announced by President Timothy Myers.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Home Care Section: A Positive Place to Address the Negatives in the Industry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you’re working in home care, we don’t have to tell you how tough it’s been for your specialty over the past few years. Oxygen cuts, competitive bidding, and other challenges have forced many people out of the business entirely, and those who are left are struggling to survive.]]></description>
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      <title>Request for Proposals for Presentation at the 56th International Congress</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC invites you to submit Proposals for Lecture/Symposium for the Congress and/or Abstracts from original studies for presentation at the Congress’ OPEN FORUM.]]></description>
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