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Column: Partners dominates Massachusetts market due to docs, not hospitals

Partners HealthCare dominates the Massachusetts healthcare market because of its large physician network, as opposed to its number of hospitals, John McDonough wrote in a Health Stew column on Boston.com.

Whistleblower blasts Bayonne Medical Center for unqualified supervisor

A jury awarded a former Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center employee more than $2.1 million after filing a whistleblower suit against the hospital over improper staffing, the Jersey Journal reported.

Hospitals' cardiac arrest cases linked to survival rates

Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, according to a study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System.

Patient outcomes unaffected by nighttime ICU docs

Although a third of the nation's academic  hospitals use intensivist staffing at night to help improve outcomes, nighttime intensivists don't benefit patients and may unnecessarily increase costs, according to a study published online yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Hospitals that predominantly treat black patients provide poor trauma care

A study in Health Services Research finds hospitals that predominately treat black patients provide poor care to trauma victims. 

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