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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Deadly yet easily preventable bloodstream infections continue to plague American hospitals because facility administrators fail to commit resources and attention to the problem, according to a survey of medical professionals released Monday.
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Illinois High Court: Nonprofit Hospital Can Be Taxed
Friday, March 19th, 2010An Illinois Catholic medical center isn’t a charitable enterprise and must pay property taxes, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday in a case that has been closely watched by hospitals nationwide.
Hospital infections killed 48,000, report shows
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in U.S. hospitals killed 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a report released on Monday.
When Hospital Fees Catch You Off Guard
Sunday, December 13th, 2009When patients visit some doctors’ offices and urgent-care clinics, they’re increasingly running into something unexpected: billing as though they had gone to a hospital.
The fees, which sometimes amount to hundreds of dollars, can result when hospitals own physician practices, urgent-care centers and other operations . . .
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AARP: 20-33% Medicare beneficiaries readmitted to hospitals
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009“Another serious problem we’ve been hearing about lately is that of hospitals discharging older patients without any follow-up, or ‘transitional,’ services. One of every five Medicare beneficiaries is readmitted within 30 days of discharge; and one of every three, within 90 days – often because of poor communication between patients, caregivers and healthcare providers.” –…
2007 Annual Report of Hospital Adverse Events
Friday, August 7th, 2009Since 2006 the Patient Safety Commission has worked with Oregon hospitals to systematically collect information about adverse events (which some people call medical errors). In the process we have created a unique data set that includes details about what happened, what was learned when hospitals investigated events, and what remedies hospitals put in place to…
Cutting Repeat Hospital Trips — Simple Idea, Hard to Pull Off
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009PITTSFIELD, Mass. — One prescription for slashing billions of dollars from America’s health-care spending will come down to questions like this: Can hospitals persuade discharged patients such as Betty Beauchaine to pass up a Fourth of July hot dog?…
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Hospitals Expected to Agree to $155 Billion in Healthcare Savings
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Three press organizations wrote good pieces on the same subject. Here are the links to all of them.
The nation’s hospitals agreed last night to contribute $155 billion over 10 years toward the cost of insuring the 47 million Americans without health coverage, according to two industry sources..
Washington Post :http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070604053.html
Obamas Letter to the Senate
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009On June 3rd President Obama wrote a letter to Senators Kennedy and Baucus about what he wants to get passed in Health Care.
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Drug Makers, Hospitals Raise Prices
Monday, May 4th, 2009Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies have been pushing through hefty price increases aimed at bolstering earnings…
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