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Hospitals
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Spotlight on sepsis: Reporting on ‘dirty little hospital horror’
As senior quality editor for HealthLeaders Media for more than six years, Cheryl Clark wrote more than 1,300 stories about…
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Reaching rural populations and providers: more from #ruralhealth15
Distance dominated much of the conversation at AHCJ’s recent Rural Health Journalism Workshop in Fort Worth, Texas, a vast state…
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Health care delivery reform and what it means in the delivery room
I recently heard Neel Shah, M.D., an obstetrician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the founder of Costs of Care,…
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Another report casts skeptical eye on patient satisfaction surveys
After we posted in May on issues concerning hospital patient satisfaction surveys, the Hastings Center, a Garrison, N.Y., research institute…
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Workshop to offer look at nation’s rural health landscape #ruralhealth15
A lot has been made of mapping health care lately, from states and counties to ZIP codes and income. But…
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For AHCJ members: Updated data about hospital charges to Medicare
With an update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare…
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Proposal would change how hospitals bill for services after acquiring physician groups
When health policy experts talk about ways to improve how Medicare and commercial health plans pay for care, they often…
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Journalists expose weaknesses in Idaho’s fragmented, threadbare mental health system
Last fall, The Idaho Statesman newspaper and NPR member station Boise State Public Radio ran a series titled, “In Crisis,”…
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What that recent emergency department survey didn’t tell us
Earlier this month many of us received a news release from the American College of Emergency Physicians about a survey that…
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Illnesses, injuries linked to medical devices a ripe area for investigation #ahcj15
Most medical devices marketed in the United States do not need formal approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.…