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Those with occupational therapy jobs Arizona may benefit from a new collaborative healthcare program set up by the federal government.

A new set of regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services will not only allow people with Medicare to benefit form Accountable Care Organizations, but allow professionals involved in those organizations to reap a number of benefits.

An Accountable Care Organization is a group of primary care doctors, specialists, hospital workers, and other care providers who work together to improve care for Medicare patients. Employees who opt to become part of an Accountable Care Organization will see increased savings from better coordinated patient care, higher-quality care, and the ability to use healthcare dollars more wisely.

"The Accountable Care Organization model of delivering care may not be right for every doctor, practice, clinic, or hospital, but it adds to the extensive menu of options offered through the Affordable Care Act to provide better health, better care, and lower costs not only for Medicare beneficiaries, but for all Americans," HHS notes.

The new regulations establish a voluntary Medicare Shared Savings Program, which aims to help doctors, hospitals, and other providers improve their ability to coordinate care across different healthcare settings.

Healthcare providers who meet a set of quality standards will be able to share in any resulting savings. The quality measures include: patient experience, care coordination and patient safety, preventive health, and caring for at-risk populations.

Essentially, healthcare providers who offer a greater quality of care will receive greater savings, with the potential to earn up to $940 million in savings over the next four years.

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Those with Arizona nursing jobs (http://azjobs.cancercenter.com) may one day benefit from a new medical study being supported by one of the nation's largest technology companies.

Dell recently announced plans to expand the companies Powering the Possible program to provide funding, employee engagement, and cloud computing technology to support a number of pediatric cancer research programs.

Part of the funding will allow the Translational Genomics Research Institute, the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium, and Van Andel Research Institute to conduct the world's first personalized medicine trial for pediatric cancer.

TGen will use its genomic technology within Dell's cloud to help NMTRC identify a greater depth of personalized treatment strategies for children with neuroblastoma who are already enrolled in an NMTRC clinical trial.

Here are some key facts about neuroblastoma and the funding:

• Neuroblastoma attacks the sympathetic nervous system - which controls heart rate, blood pressure, and digestion - with aggressive tumors unique to each child.
• Neuroblastoma affects one out of every 100,000 children every year and is responsible for one in seven pediatric cancer-related deaths.
• The Food and Drug Administration has only approved one new treatment for childhood cancer since 1980, compared with 50 treatments for adult cancers.
• The new personalized medical trial is mainly being funded by parents of children with neuroblastoma and their foundations.
• The trial hopes to develop "real time" processing of information on patient tumors and predict the best drugs for a specific patient.
• Dell's cloud solution will allow TGen to increase its gene sequencing and analysis capacity by 1,200 percent
• The cloud also will allow for better collaboration among physicians, genetic researchers, pharmacists, and computer scientists working on the trial.
• Finally, the cloud will expand the program's participation from a handful of children today to hundreds of children over the next three years.

"Even at this earliest moment in genomics-guided therapy, there is universal recognition that the amount and complexity of data is overwhelming," Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D., president and research director of TGen and VARI, said in a statement.

"Dell's commitment to helping children with cancer, coupled with its expertise in developing cloud-based solutions for health information, will provide great benefit in terms of helping us manage the massively complex data generated by this clinical trial," he continued. "This will help physicians and scientists share information rapidly, and is designed to help us arrive at the optimal treatment decision for each child battling cancer."

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Those with non profit jobs are getting some advice on how to bring in more donations.

"Growing Philanthropy in the United States," a new report from Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang, scholars and teachers at Indiana University, offers a number of ideas on how to increase charitable giving.

During 2010, donations from individual donors increased by 2.7 percent to $212 billion, showing that people were still making contributions despite the down economy. However, that number also is equal to the 40-year average for this figure, which means that giving has essentially remained even over the last several years.

"Encouraging voluntary contributions to fund the work of nonprofits must therefore be a priority," the report notes. "However, the question remains how to best achieve this goal in the face of the stubbornly static  pattern of giving we allude to above. Forty years of increasingly sophisticated fundraising practice, the development of planned giving vehicles, the appearance of the Internet and the rise of new digital channels have done nothing to move the needle on giving."

Here are some suggestions from influential leaders of the nonprofit industry on how to increase charitable giving:

Enhancing the Quality of Donor Relationships

• Redefine relationships from donor relationships to individual relationships.
• Reorient toward longer term measures of fundraising performance.
• Enhance focus on retention and building supporter loyalty.
• Develop a more integrated approach to fundraising.
• Break down organizational silos and encourage greater collaboration between teams.
• Give supporters greater control over the relationship.
• Promote the development of shared back office facilities.
• Tackle high turnover rates in the fundraising profession.
• Educate all stakeholders about the necessity of a longer term and integrated approach.

Developing Public Trust and Confidence in the Sector

• Empower the regulators to enforce 100 percent filing of forms 990 and increase their utility.
• Blow the whistle on organizations claiming to have zero costs of fundraising.
• Fund the development of a website in the U.S. to educate the public, boards, and other stakeholders.
• Encourage nonprofits to develop complaints schemes.
• Fund the development of a website to facilitate peer-to-peer evaluations of nonprofits.
• Develop new and more appropriate measures of performance.
• Develop the self-regulation of fundraising.

Identifying New Audiences, Channels, and Forms of Giving with Strong Potential for Growth

• Encourage the adoption of monthly giving.
• Improve the sector's engagement with young people.
• Encourage and promote best practices in social media.
• Encourage asset-based giving.
• Develop expertise in broadening participation in giving.
• Improve the quality of bequest fundraising practice.
• Challenge the wealthy to plan their own philanthropy.
• Create a nonprofit mutual fund.
• Leveraging companies to promote philanthropy.

Improving the Quality of Fundraising Training and Development

• Invest in the development of fundraising research.
• Create a fundraising research institute.
• Redesign the system of professional development and certification for fundraisers.
• Encourage the development of academic qualifications in fundraising.
• Appoint a "sales force" for the body of fundraising knowledge.
• Call out institutions offering certificates purporting to be qualifications.
• Educate board members about the intricacies of fundraising.

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A technology company's decision to build a new manufacturing facility in the area will up the number of IT jobs Phoenix has to offer.

Maxwell Technologies Inc. recently announced its plans to open a new manufacturing plant in Peoria, a nearby suburb of Phoenix. The project will create anywhere from 150 to 200 jobs and will inject $26 million into the local economy.

San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies creates energy-storage and power-delivery products for the transportation, industrial, and telecommunications industries. The company's ultracapacitors can be used in computers, buses, hybrid and electric vehicles, and wind turbines, among other things.

According to an article by The Arizona Republic, Maxwell Technologies chose Peoria as the site for its new facility because of the state's renowned universities, a favorable business climate backed by state economic development groups, and low electric rates.

The company plans to begin hiring for the new facility next year. Positions are available for manufacturing, technical, and administrative professionals, with the average employee earning abut $50,000 per year.

Maxwell plans to hire factory workers and technicians first, and will add more research and engineering-related work over time. Assembly work will be contracted to manufacturers in Mexico, Central America, and Asia.

Maxwell Technologies employs more than 400 people throughout the world. Aside from San Diego and Phoenix, the company also does business in Switzerland, the U.K., Germany, China, and Asia.

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One of the nation's top retail stores is planning to create hundreds of Phoenix sales jobs (http://lazboyjobs.com) this holiday season.

Macy's, Inc. recently announced its plans to hire 78,000 employees this holiday season, an increase of 4 percent from last year. Employees will be hired at Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores, call centers, distribution centers, and online fulfillment centers throughout the nation.

The Phoenix Business Journal reports that Macy's will add seasonal workers at all of the company's stores throughout the Phoenix area, as well as the company's online fulfillment center in Goodyear and its call center in Tempe.

"We always hire aggressively during the holidays to ensure our customers are well-served in this important shopping period," Terry J. Lundgren, chairman, president, and CEO of Macy's, said in a press release. "Our seasonal associates serve customers on the selling floow, work behind the scenes in store operations positions, interact with customers via the telephone in call centers, and staff the distribution and fulfillment centers that coordinate shipments to our stores and directly to customers who buy online."

Most of the seasonal positions are part-time and offer flexible hours. However, candidates should be willing to work evenings, weekends, or overnight. Some seasonal employees will be offered permanent employment after the holidays.

"Working in a seasonal position at Macy's or Bloomingdale's is a great way to earn extra money during the holidays," Lundgren added. "Many of our seasonal hires are students on break, stay-at-home parents, individuals in career transitions or those with extra time they would like to use productively. Retailing is a fast-based business, and working at Macy's and Bloomingdale's during this magical time of year can be fun and rewarding."

Macy's currently employs about 170,000 permanent employees. The company operates about 850 department stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

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Those with hotel marketing jobs Phoenix are using social media to bring in more customers.

Best Western International recently launched the "Virtual Accelerator" app on the company's Facebook page. The new app allows Best Western Rewards members to earn up to 100,000 rewards points as part of the "Fastest Way to a Free Night" initiative.

In order to take advantage of the promotion, rewards members simply have to "Like" the Best Western Facebook page, use the "Virtual Accelerator" app to redeem free points, and encourage their Facebook friends to use the app to earn additional points.

"The 'Virtual Accelerator' provides us with a fun and unique way to engage with travelers and show them how fast and easy it is to earn a free night with Best Western Rewards," Dorothy Dowling, vice president of sales and marketing for Best Western, said in a statement. "To thank our members for their loyalty, we'll give away a total of 10 million points, good for more than 1,200 free nights. It's a program designed to ensure that everyone who participates is a winner."

Best Western has more than 4,000 hotels in more than 90 countries, making it easy for rewards members to redeem points. Members can then use those points for everything from free nights at the hotel to dining, shopping, and entertainment gift cards.

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There are a number of options for those seeking Dallas hotel jobs.

It takes a lot of employees working together to make the day-to-day operations of a hotel run smoothly. This means that there are plenty of options when it comes to choosing a career in the industry.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, service occupations account for 65 percent of all jobs in the hotel industry, while office and administrative support positions account for 19 percent of positions in the industry.

Service occupations

• Baggage porters and bellhops
• Bartenders
• Bartender helpers
• Camp counselors
• Chefs and head cooks
• Concierges
• Dining room and cafeteria attendants
• Doorkeepers
• Fast food and counter workers
• Food and beverage directors
• Food preparation and serving supervisors
• Food preparation workers
• Gaming service workers
• Grounds maintenance workers
• Hosts and hostesses
• Janitors and cleaners
• Maids and housekeeping cleaners
• Recreation and fitness workers
• Restaurant cooks
• Waiters and waitresses

Office and administrative support occupations

• Bookkeeping and accounting clerks
• Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks

Management, business, and financial operations occupations

• Executive housekeepers
• Food and beverage managers
• Heads of hotel security
• Human resources directors
• Lodging managers
• Public relations or sales managers
• Rooms managers

Other occupations

• Barbers and cosmetologists
• Computer specialists
• Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
• Gardeners
• General maintenance and repair workers
• Guards and security officers
• Parking attendants
• Valets

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