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      <title>Good Press: AARC Members in the News</title>
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      <title>World Asthma Day: RTs Are On the Job!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The whole world will be turning its attention to asthma on Tuesday, May 1, as we mark this year’s World Asthma Day.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thomas J. Kallstrom, MBA, RRT, FAARC, has been named Executive Director of the American Association for Respiratory Care, upon the retirement of Sam Giordano, who held that position for over 30 years.]]></description>
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      <title>Surveys for Updated AARC Uniform Reporting Manual (URM) Begin</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AARC’s Uniform Reporting Manual has provided managers of respiratory services in acute care hospitals with a productivity management system based on time standards. We are now in the process of revising and updating this manual.]]></description>
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      <title>AARC Summer Meetings 2012</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Summer Meetings programs, travel, and housing now available.]]></description>
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      <title>Dr. Philip Marcus, BOMA Chair, Dies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Philip Marcus, MD, MPH, FCCP, chair of the AARC’s Board of Medical Advisors (BOMA), died suddenly last weekend while on a family vacation in France.]]></description>
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      <title>Dean Hess to Represent AARC on CDC Working Group</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Centers for Disease Control has asked the AARC to serve on a working group on VAP Surveillance. Dean Hess, PhD, RRT, FAARC, has been named as our representative to this CDC group, which is part of the National Healthcare Safety Network.]]></description>
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      <title>Keep Those Letters Going</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Respiratory therapists who came to Washington, D.C. on behalf of the profession and the pulmonary patients had a great and successful Capitol Hill Lobby Day. We gained 17 new co-sponsors for our Medicare Respiratory Therapy Initiative, HR 941.]]></description>
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      <title>Toolkit Helps RTs with Rehab Information</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Toolkit, developed by AARC, AACVPR, ACCP, ATS and NAMDRC, is an educational resource designed to aid respiratory therapists, PR program directors, hospital charge masters and financial directors with the information and examples they need to accurately establish the charges for their PR programs when they bill Medicare.]]></description>
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      <title>How Do They Do That in Namibia?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wondering how respiratory care is practiced in other countries around the world? The AARC’s International Fellowship Program is a great place to find out.]]></description>
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      <title>Educators: Help Recognize Outstanding Students!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The American Respiratory Care Foundation (ARCF) is accepting applications for its undergraduate and postgraduate Education Recognition Awards now through June 15, and is asking RT educators to help get the word out to their students.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whether you attended AARC Congress 2011 or not, you’re likely to have heard there were lots of rumors floating around regarding the future of the AARC Sputum Bowl.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC’s Virtual Lobby Week has been a success, well over 10,000 of emails sent by respiratory therapists, patients, and caregivers and friends of the profession were sent to all Members of Congress asking for support of  the Medicare Respiratory Therapy Initiative.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check our our latest list of newsmakers.]]></description>
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      <title>March is the Month for Sleep and Pulmonary Rehab</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This month is the perfect time to turn your attention to sleep and pulmonary rehabilitation.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[AARC, working with other pulmonary organizations and societies (ACCP, AACVPR, ATS and NAMDRC) is developing a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Toolkit that will serve as a resource and educational document for hospitals to use to accurately report their charges to Medicare for services furnished as part of a hospital outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program (G0424).]]></description>
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