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Hospitals
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Nonprofit hospital CEO earns $5 mil in severance
Writing for The (Bergen County) Record and NorthJersey.com, Lindy Washburn used recent tax filings to discover millions in severance pay…
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Wash. health data now includes infection rates
Washington state has solidified its position as a leader in health data transparency with the publication this year of hospital…
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Initiatives not improving patient safety; poor implementation to blame
A large-scale study that followed mistakes in health care delivery at 10 North Carolina hospitals from 2002 to 2007 found…
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Report projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by…
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Quest for profit behind patient safety problems in Las Vegas hospitals
Marshall Allen, of the Las Vegas Sun, continues his look at patient safety in Las Vegas hospitals and has been…
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Calif. hospitals slow to prep for quakes
California Watch health reporter Christina Jewett has found that despite an earthquake readiness push that’s a decade and a half…
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“Never events” still happen sometimes
Photo by Garrett P. via Flickr MedPage Today’s Crystal Phend drew two key lessons from a recent paper on the…
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Drinking wine during a hospital stay
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reporter Sherry Slater appears to have started a bit of a national conversation with her profile…
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A new wave of hospital consolidation looms
Nationally, the hospital consolidation craze has leveled off since its 2006 peak, but Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby,…
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GAO examines competition in hospital purchasing
Group purchasing organizations are intermediaries which theoretically group hospitals together to give them more leverage in purchasing negotiations. In 2009,…