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HealthGrades lists top sites for emergency care

Denver-based HealthGrades has recognized 263 hospitals as top performers in emergency medicine. HealthGrades analyzed three years of patient data covering millions of admissions from the emergency department for 12 conditions, including pancreatitis, sepsis and stroke....

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Video News Short: NBGH's Helen Darling discusses mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers (3:40)

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Featured Commentary

Transitional care model improves care, decreases costs

Dr. Cliff Fullerton | February 13, 2012
The data are in. After 20 years of testing and refining the transitional care model first implemented by registered nurse Mary Naylor, it has been...
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Water hazard

Matthew Greis | February 04, 2012
Hear that? It's the sound of water gently cascading from a decorative fountain in a hospital lobby. But, if the murmur of flowing water is meant to...
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Featured Content

Putting it to the test

Maureen McKinney | February 11, 2012
Those who want to test their patient-safety skill set while adding some letters after their name will be able to do so starting March 5, when a...
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Looking at value

Andis Robeznieks | February 04, 2012
While healthcare's finest minds continue to wrestle over how to measure quality, the National Quality Forum lit a match near another potential powder...
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Accreditation

Doc-training programs to be judged on outcomes

Andis Robeznieks | February 22, 2012
The nation's physician-training programs are set to undergo a restructuring, phased in over two years starting in July 2013, which will ultimately...
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Fighting fatigue

Maureen McKinney | December 19, 2011
Sleep medicine experts and patient-safety advocates are applauding the Joint Commission's recently issued sentinel event alert.
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Comparative Effectiveness

‘Time is of the essence'

Maureen McKinney | January 28, 2012
The not-for-profit organization tasked by the healthcare reform law with promoting comparative effectiveness research has spent the 16 months since...
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New fee coming for medical effectiveness research

Associated Press | December 27, 2011
Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests...
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Never Events

Safety ‘milestone’

Maureen McKinney | February 11, 2012
Users of the CMS’ Hospital Compare website can now access their hospital’s rates of dangerous and preventable central line-associated...
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Hospital Compare website adds infection data

Maureen McKinney | February 07, 2012
The CMS' Hospital Compare website has been updated with facility-specific data on central line-associated bloodstream infections.
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Public Health

Lack of unified system hampers kidney transplants

New York Times | February 19, 2012
Many of the most prominent names in the field of kidney transplantation agree that the way to maximize the number of transplants through paired...
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Docs who tackle unhealthy lifestyles

WBUR (Boston) | February 17, 2012
"You should lose weight and exercise, but in the meantime, take these pills." That's the sort of prescription Dr. Damian Folch, a general...
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