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Hospitals
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Rural Texas hospitals seek lifeline from state
The Texas Tribune‘s Elizabeth Titus reports that rural hospitals in the scores of Texas counties without tax bases strong enough…
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Higher health care costs, lack of safety innovations traced to group purchasing organizations
The Washington Monthly‘s Mariah Blake writes about the ins and outs of group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and their effect on…
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Calif. finds 3,500 nurses were disciplined elsewhere
California’s nursing board has confirmed what fans of Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber’s disciplined caregivers series for ProPublica and the…
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N.C. county’s mental health services overwhelmed
The one million people who live in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County are served by a single 66-bed county mental health…
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Outpatient care can lead to more infections
With a nod to the established dominance of outpatient surgery, NPR health blogger Scott Hensley explores a recent JAMA study…
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New IRS rules reveal hospital conflict disclosures
The new IRS disclosure rules for nonprofit hospitals seemed to promise some interesting revelations, and now that they’re public, the…
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AHRQ asks ‘Who’s paying for rising health costs?’
The latest statistics brief out of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality address what researchers called the “growing burden…
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Hospital sends ER wait times via text
Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., has taken the art of making ER wait times available to prospective patients to the…
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AP takes on medical costs of overtreatment
The AP’s Lauran Neergaard has taken on medical overtreatment in America in the first two parts of a six-part series,…
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Physician-owned hospitals: Restricting us is unconstitutional!
The National Law Journal’s Tresa Baldas has the details of a suit filed by physician-owned hospital advocacy and ownership groups…