These reviews will focus on seven states with high populations of fraud- and error-prone providers (FL, CA, MI, TX, NY, LA, IL) and four states with high claims volumes of short inpatient hospital stays (PA, OH, NC, MO) for a total of 11 states.
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In November, it purchased Park Royal Hospital, a 76-bed acute inpatient psychiatric hospital in Florida.
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Every hospital inpatient in America should navigate right now to the just-published AARP Magazine and its virtual hospital room.
While politicians--especially the new administration--focus on rapidly rising health care costs, one rather important piece of good news is that hospital inpatient mortality rates are plummeting.
In fact, data since 2002 shows that as home health has grown as a percentage of total per-beneficiary spending, hospital inpatient spending has fallen, and by a greater amount.
The health board said it wanted to give assurances that there have been "major changes" since Mr O was an inpatient at the hospital, particularly around pressure ulcer prevention.
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There have been 12 inpatient legionella cases at Basildon Hospital since 2002.
There is increasing pressure from the government to reconfigure children's services so that senior paediatricians are located in more specialist inpatient units, with smaller hospital wards closing or being converted to daytime-only units staffed by specialist nurses and visiting consultants.
In December, though, after a fall requiring two months of inpatient rehabilitation, doctors at the hospital put her on a regimen of four daily injections.
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The study, led by first author Peter Ducharme, MSW, a clinical social worker at Boston Children's, compared two groups of 9- to 17-year-old children admitted to the hospital's Psychiatry Inpatient Service who had high levels of anger.
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Malala was discharged as an inpatient from Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital last month.
Most inpatient care is provided at Basildon University Hospital, which has 777 beds, and outpatient care at Orsett hospital in Grays.
The South Eastern Trust plans to move its acute inpatient wards at both hospitals to Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn.
Every year, each hospital must report its revenues from inpatient and outpatient (clinic) operations, net of discounts by insurers, and also report its related expenses.
Indeed, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that hospital consolidation in the 1990s drove up inpatient prices 5%.
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Community health chiefs in Cornwall will be questioned about a hospital's future after the closing of inpatient beds last year, an MP says.
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Earlier this year, Citrus Valley was named one of the most improved hospital systems in the country in terms of inpatient satisfaction by Press Ganey Associates, a provider of healthcare analytics.
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It argued Newton Abbot Hospital had "the latest facilities to help make an inpatient stay as comfortable, safe, pain-free and short as possible".
Sixteen state hospital associations operate Web sites that allow comparison shopping for such inpatient procedures as appendectomies, maternity stays and knee or hip replacements: Georgia, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.
With the exception of rural areas where only one hospital may be accessible, patients often have a choice of healthcare providers, even for inpatient care.
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