In 1985 a headhunter landed him a job at American Hospital Supply in Santa Ana, Calif.
Two days later, surrounded by family, she died at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine without regaining consciousness.
Single and focused, Randall thrived at American Hospital Supply and quickly got himself noticed in the medical-device industry.
Enter an American hospital for heart bypass surgery and youll likely be home in one to two days.
This has won him the endorsement of the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and other non-partisan bodies.
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Carroll underwent a medical checkup at the American hospital in the Green Zone.
There are 5, 754 registered hospitals in the U.S. with nearly 37 million patients admitted, according to the American Hospital Association.
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But the doctor's career has been built on spreading private-sector practices into the American hospital industry, which is dominated by not-for-profit institutions.
Providers or provider associations (such as the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association) or insurers could pay to have products reviewed.
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The American Hospital Association agrees that patients play a crucial role.
However, the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association both said on Wednesday they oppose the Medicare expansion provision in the Senate package.
The main problem with these arguments is that the data we reported, with help from the American Hospital Directory, comes from the hospitals themselves.
Our list, done by the American Hospital Directory, is based on operating income figures that hospitals must report to the federal Medicare program each year.
In a study carried out in the 1970s, 80% of those questioned at a leading American hospital gave the wrong answer, most of them saying 95%.
William Shoemaker, of the American Hospital Directory in Louisville, Ky.
On November 30, the head of the American Hospital Association Rick Umbdenstock fired off a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, urging her to reconsider those requirements.
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Using data and advice from William Shoemaker at the American Hospital Directory, we looked at several thousand hospitals with 200 beds or more and ranked them by operating margin.
"The concept of a payment policy that supports quality and safety is something that we support, " says Nancy Foster, who handles quality and patient safety issues for the American Hospital Association.
There's one problem: They are unable to feature the leading voices of patient care -- the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association -- because those organizations support reform as good for patients.
Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, tells NPR's Robert Siegel that the hospitals have accepted "in principle" that reimbursements from Washington will decline as the number of insured patients rise at those institutions.
Standing behind him as he made the remarks were the leaders of the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the American Hospital Association and the Service Employees International Union--trade groups representing medical technology companies, doctors, pharmaceuticals, hospitals and labor.
Now, Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt are recovering from surgery at an American military hospital in Germany.
One form, Alfentanyl, which is used as a hospital anesthetic, was tested by American researchers in the 1990s as a law-enforcement tool but rejected because it could be lethal in larger doses.
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Dr. David Faxon , chief of cardiology at University of Chicago Hospital and former president of the American Heart Association, began using the device earlier this year to determine the role viscosity may play in clogging or hardening arteries.
"It's going to temper the use of these drugs, there's no doubt in my mind, " says Douglas Weaver, a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital and the president of the American College of Cardiology, which is meeting in Chicago this weekend.
At laboratories at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, orthopedists and biomechanists place dozens of sensors on pitchers and have them throw in front of a series of infrared cameras that measure their motions and turn the windup into a three-dimensional computer graphic.
In 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly the American film actress Grace Kelly, died in the hospital after a car crash the previous day.
Douglas Weaver, a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and president of the American College of Cardiology, saw earlier studies of Vytorin as a reason to back off on the drug.
Now we must all look forward--lawmakers, regulators, employers large and small, communities, physicians and hospital systems--to shape the American health care system as we tackle the remaining twin challenges of managing health care costs and closing gaps in quality of care.
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