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Miami's Jackson South getting ready to double its size
Miami Herald, August 4, 2008
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Prescription data used to assess consumers
Washington Post, August 4, 2008
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Hospital in Newark gets sold and saved
The Star-Ledger, August 1, 2008
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California considering laws modifying individual health insurance policies
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2008
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Cape Cod hospital CEO maps turnaround
Boston Globe, August 4, 2008
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Spotlight:
Bullies Will Be Bullies
In an effort to combat bullying among hospital employees, The Joint Commission has called for health systems to develop codes of conduct by January 1, 2009.
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Miami's Jackson South getting ready to double its size
Miami Herald, August 4, 2008
Hospital in Newark gets sold and saved
The Star-Ledger, August 1, 2008
Cape Cod hospital CEO maps turnaround
Boston Globe, August 4, 2008
Los Angeles-based Century City Doctors Hospital seeks buyer
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2008
Healthcare groups to share $30 million facility
St. Petersburg Times, August 1, 2008
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Prescription data used to assess consumers
Washington Post, August 4, 2008
Report: E-mails show Connecticut health insurance program push
Hartford Courant, August 4, 2008
Survey: Western Pennsylvania has better medical benefits
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 1, 2008
Doctor insurer seeks rate cut
Baltimore Sun, August 1, 2008
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California considering laws modifying individual health insurance policies
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2008
State's Medi-Cal program is being hit hard
San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2008
San Francisco pushes legislation to promote good health
San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2008
Los Angeles law may keep homeless in hospitals
Wall Street Journal (subscription required), August 4, 2008
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CMS releases 2009 IPPS final rule
By Brian Murphy, CPC and Andrea Kraynak, CPC-A, for HCPro, Inc., August 1, 2008
Lax oversight risks millions of Medicare dollars
AP/Yahoo News, August 4, 2008
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Medical residents lack sleep, despite policy change
USA Today, August 4, 2008
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Immigrants facing deportation by U.S. hospitals
New York Times, August 4, 2008
Iraq calls for doctors who fled violence to return
AP/Yahoo News, August 4, 2008
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Commentary:
When Should MDs Get MBAs?
There's a lot to be said for the U.S. medical education system, but practicing medicine today requires more than strong clinical skills.
Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media
July 31, 2008
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Audio:
ER: The Efficiency Room
Sharon Roush, the CEO at Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, FL, discusses how Capital Regional lowered the walkout rate in its ER from 3.6% to 0.5% and lowered its ED wait time.
Carrie Vaughan, for HealthLeaders Media
July 30, 2008
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Magazine:
Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes
But should your hospital get into the quick-clinic business with the big retailers?
Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Magazine
July 2008
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Contributed Feature:
Implications of severity-graded DRGs for service line structure, Part II
While changes to the new severity-graded DRG reimbursement structure are meant to improve quality of service and patient care through service line reformation, there is also the need, based on old charge-based DRGs, for the reorganization of healthcare structures.
Mark T. Morgan, Rita E. Numerof, and Stephen Rothenberg, for HealthLeaders Media
July 28, 2008
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