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Hispanics get worse medical care

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   March 12, 2008

According to a study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, elderly Hispanics throughout the United States tend to get inferior care. The study reported that Medicare data from 2004 reveals that hospitals with high percentages of Hispanic patients tend to have slightly lower quality indicators for heart attacks, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

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