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The Cost of Quality
 

 

Despite its relatively small size and challenged balance sheet, Rush North Shore Medical Center has enthusiastically boarded the quality improvement train with some impressive results.

  FULL STORY     PUBLISHED:  December 03, 2007  ACCESS: REG



 

A growing number of hospitals across the country are making promises to stop billing patients and payers for care related to certain medical errors, but the efforts appear to be more of a public relations move than a substantive change.
State associations that have or are looking at nonbinding, voluntary limits on such billing include those in Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota and Vermont.

  FULL STORY     PUBLISHED:  December 10, 2007  ACCESS: REG


 

Wiping out infections from hospitals may not be the financial slam-dunk it’s cracked up to be, which might explain a lot of the inertia surrounding infection control.

  FULL STORY     PUBLISHED:  December 17, 2007  ACCESS: REG


 
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