News tagged with public hospitals


Safety net health centers struggle to meet demand

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The health care safety net is straining. Just look at Jeffrey Taylor's parking lot. Taylor oversees a community health center for the poor in this suburb a dozen miles east of downtown Atlanta. The center, a modest ...





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Study finds US hospitals extremely slow to adopt electronic health records, citing cost

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There is broad consensus that electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare providers. Yet, to date, there has been no reliable estimate of the prevalence of ...


Happy hospitals make happy patients

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created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine a hospital where morale is high, employee turnover is low and patient call buttons rarely go unanswered---and if they do, you can call the hospital's CEO.


Report: Flu might fill up hospitals in 15 states

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday.


Health insurance from Uncle Sam gets a look (AP)

Health insurance from Uncle Sam gets a look

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Look out Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare. Senators are meeting behind closed doors to consider whether the federal government should jump into the health insurance business.


Hospital report cards do not appear to result in significant improvements

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An analysis of quality of cardiac care following the public release of data on measures of care at hospitals in Ontario, Canada, did not result in significant systemwide improvement in hospitals' performance on most quality ...


White House seeks health plan compromise

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


Influenza pandemic planning needed to assure adequate care for pregnant women and newborns

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pregnant women and newborns are at greatest risk in a flu epidemic, but more planning must be done to ensure that they receive priority treatment should an outbreak occur, according to a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...


Respiratory risk from hospital cleaning fluids

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created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cleaning fluids used in hospitals may pose a health risk to both staff and patients. A pilot study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Environmental Health has found that potentially hazardous chemicals are cont ...


Where you live matters when you're seriously ill

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created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

America does a mediocre job caring for its sickest people. The nation, says a new report, gets a C.


Higher hospital safety rating not associated with lower risk of in-hospital death

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hospitals that reported higher scores on measures of safe practices did not have a significantly lower rate of in-hospital deaths compared to hospitals that reported lower scores on these measures, according to a study in ...



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