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Report: California experiences should guide national health exchange discussion
Study: Patients often not informed about abnormal test findings
CA hospitals risk earthquake damage
California HealthCare Foundation donates $10M for low-interest clinic loans
Survey: Few patients rely on physician ratings
Study: Patients don't typically use online ratings
ALSO NOTED: CVS approves Caremark merger; Ethnicity affects end-of-life care; and much more...
> After several months of wrangling over a counter-offer from Express Scripts, CVS shareholders have agreed to merge with Caremark Rx. Article
> 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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