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Hospitals
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Hospitals, infrastructure focus of World Health Day
The World Health Organization has designated tomorrow (April 7) as World Health Day and this year the WHO is emphasizing…
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Sunshine Week: Some hospital quality measures online
Felice Freyer, a medical writer at The Providence (R.I.) Journal and a member of AHCJ’s Right to Know Committee, writes…
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Wis. nonprofit hospitals provide less charity care
David Wahlberg of the Wisconsin State Journal looked into the state’s nonprofit hospitals and found they “provided significantly less free…
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Consider source when reporting hospital rankings
HealthGrades, a health care ratings company, has released a report (PDF) that says “Medicare patients treated at top-rated hospitals nationwide…
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Study prompts hospital CEO to blog about change
A study led by Harvard researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that hospitals that used…
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Study: Hospital quality rankings inconsistent
A study published in the November/December 2008 issue of Health Affairs finds that five consumer-oriented Web sites that rank hospital…
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Holiday reading: Hospitals sue patients; team helps people die with dignity
Hopefully, readers of Covering Health will have some time off over the holidays. Here are two fairly extensive projects that…
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Quaid reaches settlement with hospital over errors
If you attended Health Journalism 2008 in March, you likely heard actor Dennis Quaid give an emotional talk about the…