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> A new report by the California HealthCare Foundation suggests that racial, cultural and ethnic factors often dictate what kind of end-of-life care California patients receive. …
... Read more...CA groups release hospital report card
A California hospital group has launched a website offering a quality report card on more than 200 hospitals across the state. The site, which is published by the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task Force (CHART) and the California HealthCare Foundation, rates hospitals on 50 performance indicators. These include not only risk-adjusted clinical measures of performance on such conditions as heart disease, maternity and …
... Read more...Hundreds of CA hospitals to miss safety deadline
Nearly half of approximately 900 hospital buildings being retrofitted to meet new California seismic safety guidelines will miss the state's January 2008 compliance deadline (extended to 2013 for many older structures), and many may not even meet a second deadline in 2030, according to a California HealthCare Foundation/Rand Corporation report. Given that compliance will require construction of 40 million to 70 million square feet of space, it could be more than 30 years before the law is …
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Retail clinics have been a hot topic for quite some time here at FierceHealthcare. Along the way, we've covered some stumbles among …
Study:Large groups provide higher-quality care
While consumers may assume that high-touch smaller practices can provide better care, a new study suggests that larger integrated physician groups perform better on a series of standard quality measures. The study, which appears in the current issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, examined three preventative care measures and three chronic disease management measures. The researchers based their findings on data collected from 119 California groups contracting with PacifiCare …
... Read more...Report: CA insured patients overuse EDs
While emergency department use by the uninsured remains an ongoing concern, a new study has found that ED overuse by insured patients is also a problem, at least in California. Researchers with the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) found that patients with chronic illnesses, in particular, made medically unnecessary visits to emergency departments. These patients had a positive image of ED care, and felt they had nowhere else to go, given that their primary care doctor was closed or …
... Read more...Reports examine CDHP IT tools
The California Healthcare Foundation releases two key reports on consumer healthcare technology. In the first, Health Care Cost Comparison Tools: A Market Under Construction, Forrester Research assesses the state of the tools currently available for healthcare and finds them rather lacking. It may be a little early to get worried, though. Employer demand and pressure from the consumer is creating tremendous incentives for firms to innovate and quickly. Forrester interviews health …
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