The following post is from Robert Polzoni.
If your hospital hasn’t won some kind of an award yet, what’s up with that? There are more awards out there for hospitals than reruns of “I Love Lucy.” In addition to the old standbys like HealthGrades, U.S. News & World Report and Thomson 100 Top Hospitals, [...]
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The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
Warning! This article contains a fair amount of cynicism. It may not be suitable for less mature audiences.
Apparently it costs this country’s health system a lot of money to have non-white people in it. That may not have been the primary point of the recent study Urban Institute, but [...]
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The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
Quick, how much is a life worth? Are we talking big numbers? Small numbers? Incalculably large numbers? Is it ridiculous to even attempt to put a price tag on a life? Yes? I agree. But really, isn’t that exactly what we’re doing in this national debate on health care [...]
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The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
For anybody who has paid attention to politics even a little bit over the last 50 years, the passing of Ted Kennedy is a loss the full ramifications of which we will not know for a long time. Regardless of which side of the aisle you claimed for your [...]
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The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
Good title, eh? It motivated you to read this far. How about this? I meant what I wrote up there. There is nothing wrong with medical errors; they are a part of doing business. In fact, they are necessary.
Well now that I’ve gone way out on a limb, let [...]
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I just returned from a very pleasant and relaxing eight-day vacation and used some of the time to conduct an informal poll about the debate currently raging in Congress and in the media around health care reform.
Although unscientific, the result of my poll was not good news for hospitals. You see, most people I spoke [...]
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The following post is from Stephen Texeira.
With all due respect to the folks at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), I think they may have missed the boat on one of their recent reports.
This morning I received an email titled “Exploring Health Care Quality Transparency Initiatives.” [...]
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