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Hospitals
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Hospital says it gives content to short-staffed media
Lindsey Miller of Ragan Communications Inc., a publisher of corporate communications, writes that Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has…
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Rural health costs: Lower, but just as uneven
Writing on the rural news site Daily Yonder, Bill Bishop and Julie Ardery take a look at the Dartmouth Atlas,…
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Under 1959 law, hospitals claim right to bill county for charity care
David Gulliver of Sarasota Health News found an almost-surreal local story that demonstrates just how desperate some recession-bitten hospitals have…
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How hysterectomies spurred Dartmouth Atlas’ birth
In the first of a three-part series on health care costs in America, NPR’s Alix Spiegel tells the story of…
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Hospital claims reform causing financial woes
Sean Kelly of WCVB-Boston reports that, despite suing the state on the grounds that financial difficulties caused by Massachusetts Health…
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Markets offer examples to improve costs, quality
In a New York Times op-ed, Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark McClellan discuss a recent meeting of…
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S. Dakota may be model of health-care efficiency
Jon Walker of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports on how South Dakota’s status as the 47th cheapest market in…
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Hospitals avoid reporting disciplined docs
The nonprofit group Public Citizen has released a report showing that hospitals nationwide are taking advantage of loopholes to avoid…
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CMS reverses decision on access to Idaho inspection reports
An apparent “misinterpretation” of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services led to the federal agency warning Idaho to stop posting…
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Safety initiatives borrowed from transportation industry (#ahcj09)
Patient safety improvement and medical error prevention programs in U.S. hospitals often take their inspiration from the aviation industry’s long-standing…