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Danbury (CT) Hospital, named to the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals list for three years running, establishes a set of quality initiatives each year that include aggressive plans for improvement. This year one of those initiatives focuses on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
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In 2004, the mortality rates for several cardiac care areas (including bypass procedures, valve replacements, and treatment of heart attacks) at St. Dominic's-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MS, were disappointing enough that the facility's leadership engaged the consulting arm of Golden, CO HealthGrades Inc. (recently renamed the HealthGrades Clinical Excellence Research & Consulting Group), to help it turn things around.
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According to a study in the June 2007 issue of Medical Care, hospitals that have better working conditions for nurses are safer for elderly ICU patients. The study, led by Columbia University School of Nursing researchers, measured rates of hospital-associated infections.
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As part of the Department of Health and Human Services' Value-Driven Health Care initiative, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has launched a compendium of health care report cards.
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The Rabies Symposium at the Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine in Vancouver, Canada, featured Drs. David Warrell, David Shlim, and Kanitta Suvansrinon.
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At the recent 10th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (CISTM10) in Vancouver, Canada in May an informative overview of diving medicine was given by Michael Callahan MD as part of a Plenary Session Medicine at the Extremes (PLO1).
