The big cost lever for ACOs is successful treatment on the first hospital admission, avoiding re-admission.
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Thousands of medical students face having their first hospital job offer withdrawn because of marking errors in their exams.
She had been at London's King Edward VII's Hospital since Sunday - her first hospital stay in 10 years.
Philadelphia, thanks to Ben Franklin, was the home of America's first hospital, later America's first medical school and first nursing school.
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As of next week, a leaflet aimed at men will be included in the pack a pregnant woman receives on her first hospital visit.
Fortis' first hospital rolled out in Mohali in Punjab in 2001.
He started his first hospital in 1993 in Bekasi, West Java.
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The Royal Marsden was the first hospital in the world dedicated to cancer treatment and research, and sees more than 40, 000 patients from the UK and abroad every year.
It was her first hospital stay since 2002 when she was treated at the same hospital for a minor knee operation and had minor, non-cancerous lesions removed from her face.
The first hospital I visited, McAllen Heart Hospital, is owned by Universal Health Services, a for-profit hospital chain with headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and revenues of five billion dollars last year.
With a high sulphuric acid content, the cleaner was so strong that the accident and emergency department at the first hospital the boy attended had to be evacuated, said Michael Robinson, from the Baltimore County Fire Department.
What in fact happens is that the numbers of patients sent for their first hospital appointment by their general practitioners, and the proportion of these put on to the waiting list for operations by hospital consultants, are both affected by the size of the waiting list itself.
The first NHS hospital to be run by a private company has revealed losses in the firm's first six months in charge were almost double those forecast.
Mr Russell made the announcement in Dumfries as he launched Scotland's first NHS hospital biomass boiler.
So could Kings Mill become the first PFI hospital to go the way of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, and be privately run for the NHS?
Last year cash-strapped Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire became the first general hospital to be run by a for-profit health group, Circle, signalling that the private sector might well save others from closure.
The resourceful Scott family ultimately used the Internet to bypass the brokers and cut a deal directly with the First Affiliated Hospital at the College of Medicine of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.
The singer was said to be one of his first visitors in hospital in London, describing the photographer and film-maker - whom she first met aged 15 while making a documentary in Africa - as her "best mate", "brave" and "a survivor".
Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that the princess's first night in hospital had been comfortable.
The 2011-12 data was not the first time the hospital had faced criticism over its death rates.
The woman first alerted Raigmore Hospital that her waters had broken at 03:55.
In practice this means that if Doctor Jones ranks University Hospital first and it ranks Jones first as well, they will match.
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The inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar has heard evidence about her first day in hospital and conversations she had with a midwife.
The success of the first privately-run NHS hospital should not be judged in the first months of operation, the company that runs it has insisted.
Five U.S. troops wounded in combat arrived this week at a U.S. military field hospital at Rota, the first such casualties sent to the hospital.
For this reason she was taken to the Edward 7th hospital in London, the first time she has been in hospital for 10 years, where she is currently hooked up to an IV drip.
It said the hospital provided a first-class service but in relation to paediatric services it expressed concerns about the hospital being able to maintain a workforce with the right skills.
The infant was first admitted to a hospital in Bikaner, but was later shifted to the state capital, Jaipur.
Patients also have to wait for their first appointment with a hospital doctor.
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On Friday, the air ambulance will go first to the Ulster Hospital at Dundonald and then to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.
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