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Hospitals say Medicare law won't spur changes  -  22 Feb 2008
MLive.com,...by Linda S. Mah | Kalamazoo Gazette KALAMAZOO -- A new policy under which Medicare will stop paying hospitals to treat certain preventable injuries that

Metro Hospitals fail test for cleanliness  -  22 Feb 2008
Canada.com,Nearly one-third of Vancouver Coastal Health hospitals, including Vancouver General, failed to meet cleanliness standards set by the province.

New real estate opportunities include hospitals, logistics ...  -  22 Feb 2008
Economic Times,Popularly called the "neo-asset classes" , these include medicities , hospitals, logistics and warehousing, airport or portbased business districts,

NY Legislation Would Force Abortion on Religious Hospitals  -  22 Feb 2008
CitizenLink,Under legislation sitting in the New York Assembly, religious hospitals and social service agencies in the state would be required to perform abortions or

Sector Roundup: Hospitals, Chips  -  22 Feb 2008
CNNMoney.comNEW YORK (Associated Press) - Among the sector activity stories for Thursday, Feb. 21, from AP Financial News: NEW YORK (AP) _ Psychiatric Solutions Inc.

Premise Corporation Collaborates with Leading Hospitals and ...  -  22 Feb 2008
PR Web (press release),We're certain that many hospitals will benefit from these collaborative efforts," said Laura Caramanica, RN, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing

Hospitals gain ground in acute services battle  -  22 Feb 2008
Health Service Journal,Three West Sussex hospitals have moved a step closer to retaining many of their acute services. The county's primary care trust has agreed to consider an

Hospitals need a business credo  -  22 Feb 2008
Montreal Gazette,Hospitals should be run like a business,with punch clocks. If a nurse or a doctor is due to start at 8 am, he or she should be ready to see the first

Bathurst and Bourke hospitals a farce: Rural Doctors  -  22 Feb 2008
North Queensland Register,The Rural Doctors Association of NSW says the problems facing the new Bathurst and Bourke hospitals have exposed the farce that is centralised decision

SAVE OUR HOSPITALS: Why we can't stop now  -  22 Feb 2008
Worthing Herald,KWASH welcomes many of the recommendations put forward by Sir Graeme Cato but we have some major concerns about others. The question to be asked is: "When

Premier Healthcare Alliance to Present Pre-conference Session at ...  -  22 Feb 2008
FOXBusiness..."Our work with hundreds of hospitals across the nation in the Premier/CMS HQID demonstration continues to provide evidence of how the US healthcare system

Election 2008: Call for polling centres at major hospitals  -  22 Feb 2008
New Straits Times,...â€œJust imagine there are hundreds of doctors and specialists at hospitals nationwide who are facing this predicament, we want to vote but we cannot do

CEO requests aid for hospitals, responders  -  22 Feb 2008
Augusta Chronicle (subscription),Instead, he sought aid for the hospitals that treated the victims and emergency agencies that responded. "At this point, I haven't asked for anything," he

Bluff City, Tenn., Crash Sends Several to Area Hospitals  -  22 Feb 2008
TriCities.com,A head-on crash sent several people to area hospitals Thursday, Sullivan County Sheriffâ€™s officials said. Details were sketchy late Thursday night,

Ayurveda to complement allopathic treatment in Himachal hospitals  -  22 Feb 2008
Thaindian.com,Ayurveda is quite popular in the hill state. There are 1109 state run ayurveda centres, and 26 ayurveda hospitals in Himachal Pradesh.

Breast Feeding Debate :Hospitals Pushing Moms To Go Natural  -  22 Feb 2008
KEPR 19,But local hospitals aren't staying quiet anymore. And "actively encouraging" breast feeding to new moms because they say it's point blank, better for the

Hospitals compelled to use firewood  -  22 Feb 2008
Kantipur Online,KATHMANDU, Feb 22 - Hospitals in the capital have been forced to use firewood to cook food for patients due to the shortage of cooking gas in the market.

Leadership, please  -  22 Feb 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution,Sonny Perdue's public silence about the crisis in the state's mental health hospitals finally seems to be breaking. "We know that patients were not getting

AIIMS-like hospitals in states still a dream  -  22 Feb 2008
Khabrein.info,...a Rs.20 billion project to construct six super-specialty hospitals on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi is

The face veil stirs a row in Egypt's hospitals - Feature  -  22 Feb 2008
Earthtimes,Out of 90000 nurses working in state-owned hospitals, many of whom wear head scarves, some 9630 medics wear the face veil, according to figures of the

Vocera Reveals A Wi-Fi Phone For Workers  -  22 Feb 2008
InformationWeek,The T1000 single-mode phone is best suited for vertical industries, such as hospitals, where staffs have a need for in-building communication,

Community Health Rises on Mixed Outlook  -  22 Feb 2008
Houston Chronicle,2008 AP NEW YORK â€” Shares of hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc. rose Friday after the company said it sold one of its hospitals in Ireland and

Time Runs Short to Decide Albany Health Care Cuts  -  22 Feb 2008
New York Times,...â€œWeâ€™ve been engaged in productive discussions with hospitals about these changes that weâ€™re pursuing.â€? The president of the Greater New York Hospital

Magen David Adom emergency services hampered by nonurgent tasks  -  22 Feb 2008
Ha'aretz,Moreover, this policy violates MDA's own rules, which state that transfers between hospitals may not be done by on-call ambulances.

Uganda: Heed the Cries of People Living With HIV  -  22 Feb 2008
AllAfrica.com,The lack of such vital machines in Hoima has led to transporting only a few blood samples of people living with HIV to regional hospitals for CD4 tests.

Cities and hospitals Mayo with everything  -  Feb 21, 2008
Economist,Rural hospitals are often the main employers in their communities. Even Flint is trying to re-position itself as a medical hub. But a select few cities have

LifePoint Hospitals Announces New Director  -  Feb 21, 2008
FOXBusinessIn commenting on the appointment, William F. Carpenter III, President and Chief Executive Officer of LifePoint Hospitals, said, "We are very excited to

Sector Snap: Hospitals Mostly Decline  -  Feb 21, 2008
Forbes,AP 02.21.08, 3:30 PM ET Psychiatric Solutions Inc. fell to a new annual low Thursday after its first-quarter forecast came in below analyst estimates,

Hospitals warned over A&E failure  -  Feb 21, 2008
BBC News,Waits of up to four hours for treatment can still occur at some Welsh hospitals and up to eight hours as ambulances queue up outside waiting to hand over

Health care sensor attracts interest from top US hospitals  -  Feb 21, 2008
Belfast Telegraph,By Graham Bardgett and Nigel Tilson Top US hospitals have signed up a Belfast-based vital signs monitoring specialist for a major patient care research

Hospitals' amenities make money, health sense  -  Feb 20, 2008
MLive.com,With the cutthroat competition - especially in Southeast Michigan - hospitals have to offer more to get patients to think about their facilities.

Morning Links: 21 February 2008  -  Feb 21, 2008
Nashville Post,The board of directors at LifePoint Hospitals has grown by one with the addition of Greg Bier, a former head of Deloitte & Touche's Cincinnati office.

Hospitals' Nightmare  -  Feb 20, 2008
Forbes,Big hospitals ought to be losing competitions like this all the time. But, desperate to keep upstarts from siphoning off their most desirable patients,

America's Safest Hospitals  -  Feb 20, 2008
Forbes,Of the nation's 8000 hospitals, some are decidedly better than others at preventing potentially grave, unintended consequences of a hospital

Who pays for hospitals?  -  Feb 20, 2008
Scotsman,My heart sank when I saw your headline over the story about the projected costs of the new Glasgow hospitals, "Taxpayer to pick up Â£842m hospital bill" (20

MOH to roll out elderly healthcare aid to more nursing homes ...  -  Feb 21, 2008
TODAYonline,Launched with a capital sum of $500 million last November, Medifund Silver has disbursed more than $6.1 million to beneficiaries in restructured hospitals

Schools and hospitals get help from budget  -  Feb 20, 2008
Independent Online,Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is splashing out on schools and hospitals this year, thanks to a brimming national piggy bank. Higher than expected personal

UI Hospitals and Clinics offers patient safety workshop March 6  -  Feb 21, 2008
Iowa City Press Citizen,By the Press-Citizen The Patients' Library at UI Hospitals and Clinics will host a workshop Thursday, March 6, to help educate attendees on how to increase

Several people taken to hospitals after 4-car collision  -  Feb 20, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,By Melinda Rogers Posted: 6:02 PM- A four-car collision slowed traffic for more than an hour on the Bangerter Highway and 10400 South in South Jordan today.

Martin Johnston: Star-rating for hospitals could lift standards  -  Feb 20, 2008
New Zealand Herald,By Martin Johnston League tables comparing the safety of hospitals are said to be a way of reducing the number of patients harmed through medical errors.

Accentia Techno, US co enter deal for 5 hospitals  -  Feb 20, 2008
Economic Times,MUMBAI: Accentia Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with 5 leading hospitals in US through OAK Technologies Inc, for their end to end

Hospitals switch from Baxter heparin to APP: report  -  Feb 20, 2008
Washington Post,NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some major hospitals are switching from using a heparin blood thinner product made by Baxter International Inc (BAX.

Hospitals taking risks to reduce mistakes after Medicare won't pay  -  Feb 21, 2008
WKTV,Medicare told hospitals that it won't pay the bill for infections or injuries its patients get while hospitalized. The policy won't go into effect until

RI hospitals see spike in flu cases  -  Feb 20, 2008
Boston Globe,PROVIDENCE, RIâ€”Rhode Island's hospitals have seen a spike in the number of influenza cases coming through the doors in recent weeks.

Hospitals' graveyard shift can be peril for patients  -  Feb 20, 2008
Baltimore Sun,AP February 20, 2008 CHICAGO - Many hospitals call it "code blue," a signal sent over the intercom when a patient's heart has stopped.

Communication will help hospitals, says Paterson  -  Feb 21, 2008
The Southland Times,Southland hospital services could improve if staff and senior management shared more information with counterparts in other hospitals, Health and Disability

Put hospitals on path to improvement  -  Feb 19, 2008
Boston Globe,Not only could the system improve quality and safety, but it could quickly pay for itself - good news at a time when many hospitals face limited access to

Piqued hospitals to get say in April  -  Feb 21, 2008
Arkansas Democrat Gazette,Some specialty hospitals believe the statute means that insurers must pay hospitals equally for the same services, or at least according to a clear formula

Infection rates in Lincolnshire hospitals are falling, new figures ...  -  Feb 21, 2008
Sleaford Standard,This compares with 113 cases in hospitals alone in the three months previously. MRSA cases have also seen a slight drop, with 14 cases between July and

ESIC to set up two more hospitals  -  Feb 19, 2008
Hindu,CHENNAI: The Employees State Insurance Corporation is planning two more hospitals in the State, one each at Tirupur and Tirunelveli.

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