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  • Riverside Med Center drastically cuts infection rates

    January 31, 2014 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pasadena, California

    Infection rates - once kept private by hospitals - are now public record in 32 states, California included. This new transparency - coupled with Medicare now docking payments to hospitals that don’t meet quality measures - is prompting innovation at many hospitals with high infection rates.

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  • To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data

    December 04, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Available statistics on hospital safety don’t tell the public what they need to know to make informed decisions. A dose of data to increase transparency and accountability could be the answer.

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  • Caring for mentally ill: 3 counties' success stories

    October 06, 2013 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Yakima, Washington

    There is a mental-health capacity crisis gripping Washington state. The area’s response approach, crafted over two decades, centers on a set of intensive outpatient and early-intervention programs aimed at preventing hospitalizations.

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  • Revealing a Health Care Secret: The Price

    July 31, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    An Oklahoma surgery center made news by posting its prices online – a revolutionary idea in an industry where consumers normally are buying blind. This is a big reason health care costs so much, but recent months have seen great advances in transparency.

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  • Facebook Raises The Status Of Organ Donation, Study Shows

    June 18, 2013 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Medical professionals say that there is a shortage of organs available for patients awaiting transplants. The first step towards the solution involves increasing awareness of organ donation as a viable and compassionate option. In 2012, the social media platform Facebook collaborated with surgeons to create the Organ Donor option—and, one year later, the number of organ donors increased five times.

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  • The Sense of an Ending

    May 20, 2013 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s or similar illnesses, and that number is growing as the population ages - without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions. An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

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  • Hospital uses power of architecture to promote healing

    May 06, 2013 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sechelt, British Columbia

    The architecture of a hospital can have huge effects on those inside it: the strain that old hospital buildings put on nurses, who spend too much of their time walking from one supply room to another, and on patients, whose already frail health is tested by living in rooms with one to three other patients, by the noise of the hospital, by infections. St. Mary’s Hospital in Sechelt, B.C., opened a new $44-million dollar building that has made the inside quality of life and care better.

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  • If this was a pill, you'd do anything to get it

    April 28, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

    *Medical research has done wonders to rid populations of diseases; however, the U.S. health care system has failed to appropriate the right resources to Medicare patients with one or more chronic conditions. Health Quality Partners in Doylstown, PA enrolls Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and hospitalization and sends a trained nurse to see them on a routine basis, whether they are healthy or sick. As a result, the HQP program has reduced hospitalizations and cut Medicare costs.

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  • Inside India's 'No-Frills' Hospitals, Where Heart Surgery Costs Just $800

    April 21, 2013 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: India, Bengaluru

    A hundred years after the first heart surgery, less than 10 percent of the world's population can afford it. By using pre-fabricated buildings, stripping out air-conditioning and even training visitors to help with post-operative care, the Narayana Hrudayalaya projects in India, can do “no-frills” heart surgery for $800.

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  • Lessons From America's Safest Hospitals

    April 01, 2013 |

    AARP Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    An estimated 6,000 "never events" — egregious errors like operations on the wrong limb or instruments left inside a surgical wound — occur every month among Medicare patients alone. Hospitals across the country are revamping their care programs to stop preventable injuries and deaths.

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