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Chronic pain affects 116M Americans, IOM says
Errors occur in 12% of e-prescriptions matching handwritten
Nurses extend contract negotiations with UMHS
CHS to Sell Two OK Hospitals to Ardent Subsidiary
June 29, 2011
RWJ Launches Healthcare Quality Data Website
HFMA: Kaiser Details $4B Investment in Health Management Tools
June 28, 2011
Calculating the ROI on Patient Satisfaction Efforts
June 27, 2011
Top 10 Infection Control Challenges
For Infection Prevention, Try Duct Tape
CDPH Data Breach Affects 9,000 State Workers
June 24, 2011
LA hospitals say employees won't be able to get to work during freeway closure
Action by ER staff leads to charges
Dartmouth Revises Medicare Spending Variation Report
June 23, 2011
Money woes, infighting plague UW nursing school
Sheehan Health (NY) seeks recovery from payroll ’glitch’
June 21, 2011
AMA: 1 in 5 Insurance Claims Bungled
June 16, 2011
CO nurse accused of stealing IDs of hospital patients
Healthcare Leaders Address Class of 2011
MGMA: 'Mixed Movement' on Physician Compensation
June 15, 2011
Grady Memorial Hospital to cut another 120 jobs
Trident Health lays off 35: Medicaid cuts cited
Hospital violence reportedly rising
Foreign doctors stay behind to staff Libyan hospital
Healthcare Partnership Targets KY's Medically Underserved
NQF Adds 4 Serious Reportable Events, Updates 25
June 14, 2011
Toll of caring for elderly increases
NJ hospital urged to consider medical mall instead
Never too late to be a doctor
ED Diversion Raises Heart Attack Mortality
June 13, 2011
When the treatment makes patients sick
NY hospital will keep LPNs for at least a year
June 10, 2011
Piedmont Healthcare cutting 5% of workforce
Rounds: Leaders Detail Care Coordination Strategies
June 7, 2011
Hospitals push to reduce 4.4M preventable re-admissions each year
Shifting hospital risks at night
End-of-life economics
VA Cancer Care Rivals Private Sector Quality
June 6, 2011
VA trauma center treats most grievously wounded troops
Central FL hospitals among worst in state for infections
AL Hospital Data Theft Affects Thousands
June 3, 2011
Lost medical records complicate Joplin hospital’s tornado recovery
OR hospitals report 136 preventable errors in 2010
MD hospitals report more problems to state
June 2, 2011
A look inside Joplin MO’s mobile hospital
CDC to build public health surveillance via EHR data
209K docs at risk for e-prescribing penalties
Healthcare Online Job Postings Taper in May
June 1, 2011
Rising violence shows hospitals should boost security, experts warn
Jackson Health seeks $200M from unions to balance 2012 budget
Hospitals hunt for substitutes as drug shortages rise
MN hospitals teaming up against drug theft
A long-awaited advance in the war on high blood pressure
Thomson Reuters Names Top 10 Health Systems