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November 2009
Medication safety Safety Alert for Look Alike Drugs

Colored-coded medication labels at Kings County Hospital build in extra safeguards to prevent confusion over look-alike and sound-alike drugs.

Telemedicine Gets Results for Diabetics

HHC Health & Home Care nurses help 500 New Yorkers with severe diabetes to control blood sugar levels, avoid trips to the ER and even costly hospitalizations.

House Calls
Palliative care Dignity, Comfort for End of Life and Chronic Pain

After a $3 million investment to expand Palliative Care services to all HHC hospitals, more than 8,000 New Yorkers and their families have been helped to learn their options and find hope and comfort.

Back On the Home Front

Corey Cush, HHC computer network services leader, is glad to be home after his recent return from an 18-month deployment to Afghanistan.

Corey Cush
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