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usa today
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Data shows disconnect between patient perception, hospital performance
Sifting through Medicare hospital rating data, USA Today reporters Steve Sternberg and Christopher Schnaars found an enlightening disconnect between patients’…
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ProPublica investigates ties between doc groups, industry
With an assist from Sen. Chuck Grassley, ProPublica senior reporters Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, AHCJ’s board president, have published…
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HHS publishes insurance prices, Consumer Reports explains reform
The first big wave of health care reform implementation has brought with it a mini-boom in consumer-oriented explainer sites and…
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Agreement lets disciplined nurses work in 24 states
ProPublica’s Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein are back on the disciplined caregivers beat, this time cooperating with USA Today to…
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Reporters use county rankings for analysis
On Feb. 17, rankings of the relative health of counties in each American state were released by the Robert Wood…
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1 in 5 nursing homes pull consistently bad ratings
USA Today‘s Jack Gillum crunched the numbers and found that one-fifth of U.S. nursing homes have received two consecutive poor…
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Airport dining proves to be a food safety challenge
USA Today‘s Alison Young reviewed inspection reports for hundreds of restaurants at 10 airports and found a large number of…
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Young to report on health for USA Today
AHCJ member Alison Young has gone from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she has been writing an investigative column, to USA…
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USA Today matches hospital quality data, tourism
USA Today‘s Steve Sternberg and Jack Gillum put a new spin on federal Hospital Compare ratings and other hospital quality…
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Pentagon: War takes toll on soldiers’ children too
USA Today‘s Gregg Zoroya reports the results of a Pentagon survey of more than 13,000 active-duty soldiers and their spouses…