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HEALTH CARE: Stopping the Revolving Hospital Door
Not a lot of aspects of U.S. health care still have the power to stun me, but when I first heard the statistics on U.S. hospital readmissions I was, well, stunned. I wrote about readmissions in today's...
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HEALTH REFORM: Hospitals To Provide $155 Billion In Savings
In a deal expected to be officially announced on Wednesday, July 8, the U.S. hospital industry has agreed to provide $155 billion in savings to help pay for health care reform, Ceci Connolly and...
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At a press conference this morning, Vice President Joe Biden formally announced that deal you've been hearing about with the hospitals, who have agreed to forego about $155 billion in government...
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COST: Emergency Room Utilization on the Rise
Americans are still feeling the effects of the recent economic recession. Many who have lost their jobs have also lost their health care coverage, leaving hospital emergency rooms inundated with people...
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QUALITY: Stopping the Mistakes
All health systems, even good ones, make mistakes. Some have horror stories. Surgical sponges left inside of patients, deadly infections that come from within the hospital rather than the outside...
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QUALITY: Revisiting Readmissions
We wrote about the high rate of hospital readmissions recently on the blog and for The Washington Post/Kaiser Health News. Today, both the Wall Street Journal and NPR examine the problem, both focusing...
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QUALITY: More Quality Improvements at Providence Medical Center
We wrote recently about Providence Medical Center in Everett, Washington, and itsr innovations in health care quality. Everett now gets a look as one of "10 model communities throughout the USA able to...
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HC4HR: A New Model for Accountable Care
Recently we had the chance to sit down and talk with Donna Katen-Bahensky, the president and CEO of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and a member of Health CEOs for Health Reform. In the...
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HC4HCR: Checking In With Ascension, Denver Health
This week, Kaiser Health News shined the spotlight on two high-performing health systems. KHN talked to Ascension Health President and CEO Anthony R. Tersigni, EdD, FACHE, and Denver Health CEO...
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QUALITY: It's About BETTER Health Care, Granny
When you have a chance, get the grandparents away from watching those blood-pressure raising town halls on their televisions, and tell them this. Health reform is not about chopping Medicare. It's...
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