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Core Topics
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New ratings say only modest proportion of nursing homes are high performers
Fewer than 20% of nursing homes in the U.S. are considered “best” under a revamped analysis from U.S. News and…
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2019 AHCJ-CDC fellows announced
The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced the selection of a new class of AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows. The…
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Advocate talks about progress on patient safety, offers story ideas
Lisa McGiffert is best known by journalist, health provider organizations and regulatory agencies, as the former director of the Consumers…
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Who gets the value in value-based care?
Last year on this blog, I asked a rhetorical question: Is value-based care a fad? I did not expect to…
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CMS proposal would make knee replacements, stents reimbursable at ambulatory surgery centers
Who reads Medicare rules? Nobody, right? They’re long, boring, hard to read because of the small type in narrow columns…
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Quality data on ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient services available
As my colleague Joyce Frieden reported for MedPage Today on Tuesday, in 2020, reporters will be able to compare the…
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CDC: Update of national antibiotic resistance figures due next month
Since 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been saying that, in their conservative estimate, at least…
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Panelists discuss challenges of reporting on mental health and older adults
Covering mental health issues among older adults first means understanding the differences between issues of social isolation, loneliness, depression, and…
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Despite checklists, cataloging strategies and other efforts, ‘forgotten surgical items’ remain a problem
About this time every year, the story of Dan Jennings, a man I got to know fairly well, always seems…
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Veteran journalist to lead patient safety topic area
Cheryl Clark, a journalist based in San Diego, will lead AHCJ’s newest core topic on patient safety. She will be…