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Hospitals
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Health reporter’s ultimate lesson: His mother’s final days
In the past 15 years writing about the U.S. health care system, I thought I had developed a pretty good…
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Project addresses readmission concerns by focusing on the frail
A new project is addressing the special concerns of frail elderly hospital patients in an attempt to help prevent lengthy…
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Dental problems sending more patients to hospitals
Toothaches have sent increasing numbers of poor and uninsured people to emergency rooms nationwide, according to a federal report. In…
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Standalone emergency rooms generate profit, controversy
When a local hospital opened up a free-standing emergency room in a part of the county traditionally served by its…
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Hospitals to workers: Get flu shot or get fired
In a story that could be replicated in many areas, The Morning Call‘s Tim Darragh writes that hopitals, both locally…
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Post-election: What aspects of Health Policy are reporters focused on?
In addition to AHCJ Health Policy topic leader Joanne Kenen’s predictions for Health Policy after the election, we’re reading other…
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Hospital Compare helps reporter fact check claims
After the local county commission voted to close Birmingham’s Cooper Green Mercy Hospital and replace it with a hub-and-spoke system…
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NYU hospital evacuation prompts questions about plans in other facilities
More than 200 patients had to be evacuated from New York University’s Langone Medical Center last night when backup generators…
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N.C. series explains high cost of cancer drugs
As part of an ongoing series on the cost of health care in The Charlotte Observer and The News &…
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Rau explains using data to write about hospital readmissions
Many health policy experts believe that hospital readmissions are symptomatic of the broad dysfunction of the health care system in…