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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
Patient safety and improved quality of care have become priority issues in the American healthcare system.
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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the latest...
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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
Today’s hospitals must address a variety of challenges stemming from the expectation to provide more services and better quality with fewer fina...
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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the heal...
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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see one...
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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.
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- Author:
- Phyllis Hanlon
Publish date: September 1, 2005
In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care and ...
