Before the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, almost no pharmacists administered flu vaccines. But last year, pharmacists working for Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. administered 5.5 million flu shots among the 9 million vaccines they delivered.
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Like many surgeons, my father is not big on rules. He sees surgery being as much a dance as a science, and, does not appreciate when non-physician bureaucrats weigh in on what he does.
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Bisbee, Ariz., is a former mining town of about 6,700 people, some 12 miles north of the Mexican border. It's now known as an enclave of sorts for artists and hippies. But while it has attracted galleries and coffeehouses, it has struggled to find healthcare providers.
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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers last week before defeating their upstart rival a second time for the right to represent the 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in California.
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Before the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, almost no pharmacists administered flu vaccines. But last year, pharmacists working for Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. administered 5.5 million flu shots among the 9 million vaccines they delivered.
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States are beginning to get a handle on how many choices they'll offer consumers this fall as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's experiment with creating competitive insurance markets out of whole cloth takes shape.
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New research on Medicaid in Oregon gave fresh ammunition to both sides of the fight over the Obama administration's push to persuade states to extend Medicaid coverage to more residents.
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Zimmer Holdings often touts its total knee-replacement systems as the most widely used and dependable devices for patients with osteoarthritis, but more than 1,000 people are disputing that.
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Deep-pocketed healthcare systems have become choosier about what they buy, and small standalone hospitals have found it harder to go it alone.
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After research released last month called into question the quality of some services provided at critical-access hospitals, these small and mostly rural facilities are lauding a new study that suggests their inpatient surgical mortality rates are on par with those of larger hospitals.
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Large safety net hospitals and academic medical centers fear they will be cut out of the picture by the narrow networks on steroids that many insurers will offer in the new insurance marketplaces that open for business Oct. 1.
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Healthcare professionals caring for elderly Americans with three or more chronic health conditions should minimize the number of medications they prescribe to those patients, as well as talk at length with them and their families to determine their treatment preferences and outcome goals, according...
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One of the nation's largest insurers last week closed on a $1 billion deal to become a large integrated delivery system with a pledge that newly acquired hospitals and doctors would deliver savings for enrollees and patients.
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As healthcare continues its rapid evolution, the new generation of leadership faces immense challenges that will require new ideas and approaches. And the industry's young executives are already proving that they're up to the task.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Bisbee, Ariz., is a former mining town of about 6,700 people, some 12 miles north of the Mexican border. It's now known as an enclave of sorts for artists and hippies. But while it has attracted galleries and coffeehouses, it has struggled to find healthcare providers.
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Steward Health Care System is blaming Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island for tanking its bid to buy Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, R.I.
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NAPLES, Fla.—Health Management Associates, an investor-owned hospital company based in Naples, and Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee, will form an accountable care organization to serve patients in Brevard County, Fla. HMA's physicians, along with two of its...
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LIVONIA, Mich.—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan and Trinity Health-Michigan have signed a three-year reimbursement contract that gives Trinity's 12 hospitals in Michigan financial incentives for improving care with affiliated physicians. Blue Cross has similar contracts with...
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Two Montana hospitals sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System are paying federal authorities $4 million after an internal review turned up more than 100 potentially illegal arrangements for paying doctors.
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PALO ALTO, Calif.—Stanford Hospitals & Clinics embarked on the four-year construction of a state-of-the-art and seismically sound hospital. The hospital broke ground on a facility that will add 824,000 square feet to the existing hospital and expand inpatient capacity to 600 beds. The...
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Like many surgeons, my father is not big on rules. He sees surgery being as much a dance as a science, and, does not appreciate when non-physician bureaucrats weigh in on what he does.
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Springtime in Washington brings the annual federal budget ritual. This year, President Barack Obama's budget for 2014 included a proposal to increase Medicare premiums for higher-income seniors. Other ideas to sustain Medicare are cross-pollinating across the political aisle.
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Democrats and Republicans are sharply divided over how best to improve Medicare, a program that covers nearly 50 million Americans and that will spend almost $600 billion this year.
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Regarding the story “Highmark completes West Penn deal, announces new system,” hurrah for this action. Competition is healthy in healthcare, and Pittsburgh needs another viable hospital-care system. UPMC has...
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A list of the nation's largest behavioral health providers, ranked by total revenue based on CMS Hospital Cost Report data. This list is divided into two categories: 15 for-profit and not-for-profit facilities, and 10 government-run facilities. Source: American Hospital Directory. Published May 6,...
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Dr. Thomas Lee, network president for Boston-based Partners HealthCare system and CEO of Partners Community Healthcare, will join Press Ganey on July 1 as chief medical officer, a new position at the company. Lee is a practicing cardiologist and co-chair of the Committee for Performance...
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Leukemia is attacking the body's bone marrow with waves of mutant cancer cells, but you don't have to stand back and let it happen. You are a nanobot. Your mission? “Save the precious stem cell colonies and cleanse the bone marrow of all leukemia cells with slashing, arcade-style game...
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Outliers notes a new campaign is encouraging Americans to take an online test to screen for common mental illnesses. Advocacy group Mental Health America is partnering with M3 Information to let anyone take a three-minute...
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Sixty years ago, the late American crime novelist Mickey Spillane published Kiss Me, Deadly, which could also serve as the title of a new analysis from the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health.
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