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Case study: Henry Ford offers high-touch amenities
Henry Ford Health System has become the latest provider to ramp up hospital amenities to hotel-like levels. The idea, at Henry Ford and elsewhere, is that if you make patients and families more Read more...
CO seeks review power for nonprofit hospital deals
The Colorado legislature is considering a bill that would give the state's attorney general the right to review nonprofit hospital deals that would results in a "material change" of Read more...
MI sets strict limits on building costly cancer centers
Working to avoid a costly healthcare "arms race," a commission in Michigan has ruled that it will allow the construction of only one costly proton beam therapy center for cancer treatment. Read more...
GA minorities suffer big health disparities
A new report concludes that Georgia's minorities suffer significantly worse health than non-minority citizens, with the report awarding an "F" to 16 Georgia counties on scores of minority Read more...
Nevada ASC forced to stop doing procedures
Following the discovery that six cases of hepatitis C were linked to a Nevada ambulatory surgery center--the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada--the state responded by inspecting all of the its 48 Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: WSJ: Do we really need more doctors?
In today's blog item, the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog asks a question worth asking--will it boost the performance of our healthcare system if we throw more physicians into the mix? Given that Read more...
Case study: TX hospital uses 'lean manufacturing' methods
At St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, administrators were as likely to get a patient letter saying that their experience was dreadful as they were to get letters praising the hospital experience. Hoping Read more...
MA may limit Boston metro hospital expansion
Now here's something you don't see every day. Rather than simply letting market forces prevail, Massachusetts health authorities proposed this week to protect suburban hospitals from competitive Read more...
NJ officials say more hospital closures are OK
Things look bad for many New Jersey hospitals. Four have closed in the last 18 months, four others are planning to close, five filed for bankruptcy protection and about half of the others are losing Read more...
VA, DC begin routing stroke patients to centers
In some states, ambulance crews who suspect that a patient is having a stroke are required to take the patient to a designated stroke center hospital (unless the closest is too far away). This Read more...
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