With its acquisition of multispecialty medical group HealthCare Partners, dialysis giant DaVita has ventured beyond the realm of kidneys toward serving the whole patient.
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Last week, the IOM declared a crisis in the system for delivering care to the more than 1.6 million who contract cancer and the 500,000 people who die each year from the disease.
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In this year's Modern Healthcare Design Awards program, it seems that more than ever, flexibility was on the minds of architects and their provider clients.
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Congress worked itself into a déjà vu budget stalemate with the healthcare reform law at the heart of it. Policy experts, though, said Washington's current fiscal fights won't have a significant impact on the healthcare industry this year.
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With its acquisition of multispecialty medical group HealthCare Partners, dialysis giant DaVita has ventured beyond the realm of kidneys toward serving the whole patient.
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The CMS Innovation Center in February unveiled the first Medicare accountable care program for specialty care with the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative, which targets patients with end-stage renal disease.
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In a critical report, the IOM said the nation's “increasingly chaotic and costly” cancer-care system is in crisis and fails to deliver consistent care.
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As health system Dignity Health prepares for the nation's historic expansion of health insurance, its executives are debating whether to start a loan program for newly insured patients who need help paying their share of medical bills. And it's not alone...
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Project ECHO pairs specialists with primary-care physicians and other clinicians via video teleconferencing to teach primary-care providers how to treat complex, chronic conditions.
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In this year's Modern Healthcare Design Awards program, it seems that more than ever, flexibility was on the minds of architects and their provider clients.
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Design awards judges praised the landscaping of the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, and architect Kevin Sullivan explains that “embedded nature” was the central theme of the Award of Excellence-winning project.
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Seattle Children's cancer-, critical- and emergency-care expansion project serves as the foundation of the institution's 2030 master plan, and its architects say they wanted to set the standards for future development with Building Hope's flexible design, sophisticated lighting and colors, and...
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The new nine-story ambulatory-care center is part of a master plan to transform the south end of the Boston Medical Center campus by improving pedestrian access and replacing BMC's old maternity building from the 1920s. The Shapiro Center's terracotta exterior provides contrast to the traditional...
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Design Awards judge Agnessa Todorova calls the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center her favorite project and describes it as emotional, small-scale and modern yet traditional in a natural setting.This didn't happen by accident.
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The center is a joint venture combining the obstetrical program at Abbott Northwestern and neonatal care of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota—separate but adjacent facilities. The building, connected to the existing facilities (as well as to a medical office building) via...
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Designers tried to put themselves in the shoes of cancer patients when they planned the Hughes Cancer Center, says Andrew Jarvis, principal with EwingCole architects, adding that cancer patients are repeat visitors who get bored and need new things to look at.
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Last week, the IOM declared a crisis in the system for delivering care to the more than 1.6 million who contract cancer and the 500,000 people who die each year from the disease.
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Intermountain Healthcare recently launched the nation's first enterprise system to measure and report cumulative medical radiation exposure of patients. Across our 22 hospitals and 185 clinics, our systems and personnel are now compiling data on the...
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I read with interest the outsourcing/purchasing survey feature in the Sept. 2 issue ("An inside job?"). While the topic and general focus certainly are timely in the current environment, I believe the story could be...
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A list of the nation's 20 largest medical schools -- 10 allopathic and 10 osteopathic -- ranked by total active enrollment for the 2012-13 school year. Sources: Association of American Medical Colleges; American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. Published Sept. 16, 2013, p. 33.
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MGMA-ACMPE hired Garth Jordan as COO. Jordan previously served as director of marketing and business development for the Englewood, Colo.-based Medical Group Management Association from 1997 to 2000. Jordan, 47, most recently was VP of operations at Educause, a not-for-profit whose mission...
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With the Federal Trade Commission showing renewed interest in policing mergers among healthcare providers, Chairwoman Edith Ramirez appointed noted healthcare economist Martin Gaynor to lead the commission's Economics Bureau.
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Results of a study on cognitive decline found aging brains may benefit from a video game. The study, published in the journal Nature, found attention and functional memory got a boost among older adults who played a custom-designed video game.
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Outliers has long known that competition among Pittsburgh's health systems and insurers has been fierce and caustic, with skirmishes between major players spilling into courtrooms and headlines.
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During her four years as America's doctor, the 18th surgeon general of the U.S. made it her mission to stress chronic-disease prevention. So it was no surprise during Dr. Regina Benjamin's marquee performance at Modern Healthcare's Sept. 9 gala honoring the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives...
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In the Sept. 2 article, "Rumble over jailhouse healthcare,” the prison nurse in Minnesota who allegedly turned away an ambulance for a sick inmate who later died was employed by the Minnesota Department of...
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