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Hospitals
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Taking a different look at readmission metrics, penalties
One of the high-profile programs within the Affordable Care Act is the drive to reduce preventable hospital readmissions among the…
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Report reveals the challenges behind covering patient safety
Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to report on it…
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Covering an ACA grant for ‘superusers’ in Pennsylvania
Most of us have heard about “super-users” – patients who are constantly in and out of the hospital, running up…
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Putting a human face on Maryland’s unique all-payer system
Sarah Gantz has been fascinated with Maryland’s Medicare waiver since the Baltimore Business Journal hired her to write about health…
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Tips on covering hospital mergers and acquisitions
Hospitals across the country are merging – both with other hospitals and with other health care entities such as clinics and…
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Searchable hospital data now includes June inspections
AHCJ just added 3,522 detailed records of hospital deficiencies on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June.…
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Six (or more) things to remember when reporting on health care costs
Health care costs lack transparency and are wildly variable, not just from region to region but sometimes from block to…
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Going deep on hospital closures and their human impact
Pittsburgh’s dominant health system closed a hospital in the economically depressed town of Braddock four years ago and soon after…
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Hospital survey data updated, with changes
AHCJ has just updated its easy-to-use Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data to include the…
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Early trends emerge following Medicaid expansion
A couple of stories have begun to trickle out from states about the impact of Medicaid expansion on hospitals. This…