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HealthLeaders Media QualityLeaders offers weekly reports on the top quality issues facing healthcare leaders. It also features audio interviews with industry experts, along with expert analysis, top headlines, news briefs and research reports. December 29, 2011 - Issue 48
   How Hospitals Can Save Millions Helping Homeless December 15, 2011 - Issue 47
   IHI: Getting Surgeons to Embrace Safety December 8, 2011 - Issue 46
   IHI: Hospitals, Patients Rethink Care; Berwick Blasts Rhetoric December 1, 2011 - Issue 45
   10 Ways ICD-10 Will Improve Quality of Care November 17, 2011 - Issue 44
   Lifting a Regulatory Burden Could Create Dangerous Consequences November 10, 2011 - Issue 43
   Rise in MRI Calamities Highlighted at FDA Safety Session November 3, 2011 - Issue 42
   What Would Super Committee Say About $430M Proton Beam Center War? October 27, 2011 - Issue 41
   Infection Clusters in Chemo Clinics ’Tip of the Iceberg,’ Says CDC October 20, 2011 - Issue 40
   Medicare Rule May Discourage Brain CTs in ED October 13, 2011 - Issue 39
   $500M in Readmission Prevention Funds to Bypass Hospitals October 6, 2011 - Issue 38
   8 Reasons Why Hospitals Should Reduce Bed Volume September 29, 2011 - Issue 37
   Fisher: Readmission Problem Needs a Teaching Hospital Solution September 22, 2011 - Issue 36
   Joint Commission 'Best' List Draws Skepticism from C-Suite September 15, 2011 - Issue 35
   Best and Worst Hospitals for 30-Day Mortality September 8, 2011 - Issue 34
   Immediate Jeopardy at Parkland Puts VBP Incentive Pay in Peril August 25, 2011 - Issue 32
   Solution to ’Devastating’ Surgical Awareness Remains Elusive August 18, 2011 - Issue 31
   Inside Cardiology's PCI Problem August 11, 2011 - Issue 30
   How Debt Ceiling Shenanigans Could Damage Healthcare August 4, 2011 - Issue 29
   How Healthcare Might Be Like Garlic July 28, 2011 - Issue 28
   Speed of ED Care Goes Under Quality Microscope July 14, 2011 - Issue 27
   Could Video Cameras in the OR Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery? June 30, 2011 - Issue 26
   Videos Go ’Viral’ in Fight Against HAIs June 23, 2011 - Issue 25
   Risk of Surgical Infection Rises with OR Noise Levels June 16, 2011 - Issue 24
   ACEP Chief Rails Against ED Diversions, Scheduling June 9, 2011 - Issue 23
   CMS’ Final HAC Rule Baffles Hospitals May 26, 2011 - Issue 21
   Add ’Healthcare Innovation Center’ to Buzzwords List May 19, 2011 - Issue 20
   Surgical Survival Predictors May Be Next Big Quality Metric May 12, 2011 - Issue 19
   Rare Malnutrition, Sepsis Cases Dog Hospital Group May 5, 2011 - Issue 18
   NQF Founder: Quality Measure Science Still 'Immature' April 28, 2011 - Issue 17
   Healthcare Lingo Hobbled by Political Correctness April 21, 2011 - Issue 16
   How Will Partnership for Patients Reduce Medical Harm? April 14, 2011 - Issue 15
   Who’s Being Transparent With HAC Data? April 7, 2011 - Issue 14
   1 in 3 Hospitalized Patients Suffers an Adverse Event March 31, 2011 - Issue 13
   Elected Boards No Way to Run a Hospital March 24, 2011 - Issue 12
   Hospital Chiefs Still Grappling With Reform March 17, 2011 - Issue 11
   CMS Needs to Come Clean on Immediate Jeopardy March 10, 2011 - Issue 10
   10 Ways CMS's Value-Based Purchasing Proposal is Flawed March 3, 2011 - Issue 9
   Dartmouth Atlas Challenges Ethics of ’Doctor-Centric’ Care February 24, 2011 - Issue 8
   e-Autopsy: Kaiser Hospitals Dig In to Data to Assess Mortality February 17, 2011 - Issue 7
   Doctors, Hospitals Should Share Blame For Recalled Medical Devices February 10, 2011 - Issue 6
   A Hospital Prevents Readmissions, but Threatens Revenue February 3, 2011 - Issue 5
   Gawande on Checklists: Why Don't Hospitals Use Them? January 27, 2011 - Issue 4
   To Contain Costs, Some Hospitals Tackle Patients’ Non-Medical Problems January 20, 2011 - Issue 3
   How Grumpy Patients Can Cost Hospitals Big Bucks January 13, 2011 - Issue 2
   How Scripps Health Brewed Up a Plan That Saved $350K January 6, 2011 - Issue 1
   Dawning of the Age of Mortality Transparency