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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, June 8, 2010
Could health reform laws have been structured differently to enable more than 28 million people to become newly insured by 2016, and spend less federal money? Yes, say RAND Health researchers in a new report. But the consequence would have been politically messy and infeasible, according to the report.
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By: Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, June 7, 2010
Deaths from medication errors appear to increase in July, perhaps because of the addition of new and inexperienced residents in that month, according to a new study. But many hospitals have implemented policies in the past five years to better integrate new healthcare professionals and prevent the "July effect."
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By: Matt Phillion, for HealthLeaders Media, June 7, 2010
The Joint Commission's plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals (both acute and critical access) has been pushed back until March 2011, according to an official announcement from the accrediting body.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, June 8, 2010
Tenet Healthcare Corp. said yesterday it has ended acquisition talks with Healthscope Limited, the second-largest private hospital company in Australia. Last week, Tenet confirmed the usually confidential discussions were under way to quell rumors that it said were affecting Tenet stock. Healthscope owns and operates 43 hospitals representing approximately 15% of Australia's private hospital market, and also operates the country's third-largest pathology business.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, June 8, 2010
An evaluation of 200 of the nation's largest hospitals found that 42% currently do not have policies in place to fully protect gay and lesbian patients from restrictions based on sexual orientation, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. These policies, though, may soon be changing. In April, President Obama requested that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius initiate rulemaking to lift restrictions on unrelated visitors to act as surrogate decision makers and to visit hospitalized patients.
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By: Karen Minich-Pourshadi, for HealthLeaders Media, June 7, 2010
At the end of this week, June 11, is the Feast of Saint Barnabas, so it seems fitting that this is the week I should tell you two tales of Saint Barnabas—the man and the New Jersey Health System.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, June 7, 2010
Amid everything else hospitals have to worry about, it's small wonder that hospital violence has not gotten the attention it deserves. Thankfully, this appears to be changing.
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