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An innovative closed-circuit TV (CCTV) network at a childrens hospital in Atlanta has made a significant contribution to patient and family satisfaction while boosting the morale and self-esteem of bedridden children.
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One out of three seniors who breaks a hip this year will die as a result of complications from the fracture, but simple fitness measures can greatly reduce a seniors risk of falling, say University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (UA) researchers.
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Like many performance improvement activities, benchmarking has its own nomenclature, its own tools and, in a way, even its own culture. But focusing on those differences, rather than on making benchmarking an integral part of your ongoing performance improvement program, can doom your efforts to early failure.
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In what the principals claim is a health care industry first, HealthGrades Inc. and J.D. Power and Associates have formed a strategic alliance to recognize hospitals for excellence in both service and clinical outcomes.
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The Leapfrog Group, the Washington, DC-based organization that seeks to foster improved patient safety, soon will complete a tool to help realign incentives for health care facilities that invest in meeting Leapfrog recommendations.
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AHA toolkit fosters evidence-based medicine; CDC stresses smallpox vaccination site care; St. Louis hospitals sign preparedness agreement; HHS seeks safer smallpox vaccines
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One year after being found guilty of conspiring to defraud through a system of kickbacks for patient referrals and the filing of false claims that resulted in overpayments of more than $1 million from Medicare and Medicaid, six co-defendants were sentenced to a combination of almost seven years in federal prison and more than $526,000 in restitution payments.
