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A total of 264 people injured in last week's bomb attack at the Boston Marathon were treated at 26 hospitals in the days following the attack, the Boston Public Health Commission said on Tuesday. Three people died in the attack.
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In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.
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For public health officials across the country, the Boston Marathon bombing and the blast at a Texas fertilizer plant last week served as a wake-up call: How would their communities cope?
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Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat Friday night less than 24 hours after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and Boston and its suburbs sealed in an...
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Once a year, Boston hospitals work together to train for the unthinkable. When it happened during the Boston Marathon, they were ready.
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Boston hospitals have dealt with emergency department closures, police investigations and hundreds of media requests as they treat patients injured during Monday's explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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Seven Boston area hospitals were treating at least 143 patients who were injured in the explosions that occurred earlier Monday at the Boston Marathon. At least three people had died.
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Two emergency room doctors, formerly employed by Las Vegas-based St. Rose Dominican Hospital, say they were forced to transfer patients from one St. Rose campus to another so its owners and their boss could profit—at the expense of patient safety.
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As Medicaid costs surpass all other expenses in states' budgets, several states are considering legislation or regulations that limit payment for Medicaid enrollee emergency department visits that ultimately don't qualify as emergencies.
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There is a schism when examining community benefits at metropolitan hospitals and systems and comparing them to community hospitals (“The charity offering”). One needs to look at the broader picture.
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