What should be apparent to leaders of large hospital systems is the opportunity to make changes in these disturbing trends.
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These are important issues for any large hospital system to address-and may be the key to significant cost savings in the long run.
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Walgreen, for example, has formed various affiliations with large hospital systems and doctor-led clinics across the country to create patient-care protocols and other programs.
As of Oct 1, as many large hospital systems already know, CMS will begin assessing penalties to hospitals with large numbers of re-admissions, poor performance on certain core measures of clinical healthcare, and poor patient satisfaction scores.
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As a result of this shift, many large hospital systems are making sure that their hospital employees are aligned with the new value-based, patient centric care, according to Jill Schwieters, president of Pinstripe Healthcare, a healthcare recruiting firm.
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And there are also rumblings that health insurer Wellpoint (WLP) may begin to get into the provision of outpatient medical care now that its new chief executive officer, Joseph Swedish, comes from running a large hospital system with scores of outpatient care sites.
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The whole point of the "risk adjusted" element of RAMI is that it's meant to allow at least some degree of comparison between death rates in different hospitals, even if say, one is a small hospital doing very little complex surgery, and another is a large hospital treating a high number of trauma and critical cases.
Since there are no longer any military hospitals, Garthley was taken to a large public hospital.
In Chicago, the large Catholic hospital system Presence Health is incorporating end-of-life care and advanced-directives into its ACO.
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China's self-image as a responsible great power was also on show, however, with a large new hospital ship, useful for humanitarian missions.
They require systems that can scale from a two-person clinic with no IT infrastructure (other than an Internet connection) to a large urban hospital and everything in between.
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The president "is a very smart politician but a very bad economist, " says Mauricio Pozo, a former finance minister who now runs a large private hospital in Quito.
In a study of a large university hospital, my colleagues and I found that more than a fifth of the medical mishaps reported in the study could have been prevented if someone had been willing to risk having a difficult conversation.
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This past year saw a large number of hospital mergers and acquisitions in health care.
Duties are being shared by a large team of hospital nurses and doctors for the time being.
Jonathan Steinberg and Suneet Mittal are Columbia University-affiliated electrophysiologists who also direct the EP program at a large suburban nonteaching hospital.
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The barbecue ambassadors also brought with them a large green Hillcrest hospital flag, signed by as many as 500 staff members who wrote encouraging messages on it.
Part A covers a large portion of hospital-related costs for eligible people over the age of 65 and only includes medically necessary and skilled care, not custodial care.
Bhatia says that TigerText is a targeted solution that can accommodate the devices that doctors and other workers want to use, and is also far less expensive than large-scale Hospital Information Management System software or integrated tablet-software solutions from vendors like Cisco or Alcatel.
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She added although the study was small, patients were being missed and that translated to a large number when all hospital admissions were taken into account.
Its strategic partners have helped open doors to such large for-profit hospital groups as Vanguard Health Systems and Iasis Healthcare, as well as nonprofits he declined to name.
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Large parts of the existing hospital, at Hensingham, are due to be bulldozed and rebuilt and others completely refurbished.
Video footage shows a large crowd gathering outside the hospital.
Officials say the first case was reported in the capital on Thursday, and over the following days Tripoli Central Hospital received a large number of people showing signs of alcohol poisoning.
Our ability to tell the truth and spend the time with our patients is solely a function of being employed by our patients, not their insurance company, a big hospital or a large multispecialty clinic.
Berenson reports in the May 2012 issue of Health Affairs on findings from the most recent wave of the Community Tracking Study, a biannual survey of hospital leaders working in large metropolitan areas.
While some hospital executives have commendably used a hospital chain's large size to standardize best practices, others have fallen into the age-old management trap of detaching themselves from the front lines and becoming dangerously out of touch with their own staff.
The only good news that might come out of a Scott victory would be for other CEOs who oversaw hospital companies that also paid large fraud settlements.
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He spent a large amount of time sketching in the hospital and drew inspiration from his experiences there, from the traffic markings on the floors around the operating theatre to sitting in a calm and quiet room in the premature baby unit.
Baby P was admitted to hospital in April 2007 for a large swelling to his head.
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