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Strategic partnership | Cleveland Clinic, CHS focus on costs, best practices
By Jaimy Lee | March 16, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Cleveland Clinic's unlikely partnership with Community Health Systems is supposed to marry the best of both worlds: an outcomes-driven academic medical center known for handling complex medical cases and the operational discipline of a large and successful investor-owned hospital chain.
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N.Y. hospital faces insolvency as state cuts loom
By Beth Kutscher | March 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Funding cuts from the state of New York are expected to sock publicly funded hospitals, particularly SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which has less than five months before it could face insolvency.
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Why Sunshine Act isn't enough | Besides transparency, strong penalties needed for not reporting doc payments
By Susan Chimonas, Frederica Stahl and David Rothman | February 22, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
No one has been more effective than Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in promoting transparency in medicine. From 2004 to 2010, he investigated undisclosed conflicts of interest between physicians and pharmaceutical and device companies. His findings helped lead to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
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More than 450 provider organizations join payment-bundling initiative
By Jessica Zigmond | January 31, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS on Thursday announced that more than 450 healthcare organizations will participate in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, a program created under the healthcare reform law.
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Largest U.S. teaching hospitals
By Modern Healthcare | January 19, 2013
A list of the nation's 25 largest teaching hospitals, ranked by the total number of residents and interns based on Medicare cost report figures, 2011. Source: American Hospital Directory. Published: Jan. 21, 2013, p. 32.
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'Drastic' variations in care found at top academic medical centers | Students may want to consider the differences when choosing a training institution, researchers say.
By Andis Robeznieks | October 30, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Patterns of care vary widely among 23 top U.S. academic medical centers, according to a new report. The report's authors suggest these variations may be something medical students want to weigh.
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New med students optimistic about reforms
By Burlington County (N.J.) Times | August 17, 2012
As incoming medical students put on their white coats for the first time this summer, Burlington County's newest physician trainees know they're entering a profession that's undergoing a major upheaval.
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GME funding demands attention: researchers
By Andis Robeznieks | August 16, 2012
The federal government spends more than $11.5 billion on graduate medical education—or about $100,000 for each of the 115,000 physicians in resident training—but questions on how much to spend and how to spend it are unanswered, according to an online Health Affairs
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MRSA infections rise at academic medical centers: study
By Patrick Smith | July 27, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus doubled at academic medical centers between 2003 and 2008, according to a study published in the August issue of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
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