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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 17, 2012
This year's list of honored teaching hospitals and community hospitals shows a geographical shift, with a greater concentration of winners in Texas, Florida, and California. Rankings are based on comparative performance in 10 areas, including mortality, patient satisfaction, and readmission rates.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 17, 2012
When something goes wrong after robotic surgery with the da Vinci surgical system, it's most likely due to co-morbidities in certain patients, not flaws in the robot's technology itself, researchers say.
By: Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, April 16, 2012
It's never been more important to create solid pacts that incentivize physician-hospital alignment. But it can be tricky to craft agreements that achieve your strategic and clinical goals, and stay on the right side of the law.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 16, 2012
No hospital wants to have the distinction of being the last in the United States to house a McDonald's. With or without the involvement of a public advocacy group, it's likely that within 10 years the burger behemoth will have no hospital-based restaurants.
By: April 2, 2012
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By: April 12, 2012
Date: May 1, 2012
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