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What good is healthcare reform without enough doctors?
There appears to be one significant gap that the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill doesn't address: The shortage of doctors. The American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that... Read more...
Study: Surgical residents object to work hour restrictions
Think it's just hospitals and teachers who are complaining about resident work hour limitations? Apparently, the residents themselves aren't happy with hourly work rules either, according to a new... Read more...
Proposed resident work hour limitations could cost teaching hospitals $1.6B
Residents are the engine that drives teaching hospitals--so cutting down their work hours would be costly. Just how costly? Well, if teaching hospitals were required to follow Institute of Medicine... Read more...
Mass General suspends pediatric cardiac surgery after complications
A prestigious Boston academic institution has suspended its pediatric cardiac survey program in the wake of surgical errors that were made. Massachusetts General Hospital recently saw two babies... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: NJ hospitals taught how to identify gang members
Too often, emergency departments care for young men who have been beaten, stabbed and shot as part of their dedication to an ugly profession--participation in an urban gang. Now, in New Jersey, law... Read more...
Stimulus package includes moratorium on Medicaid changes
Hospital officials seem to be in luck. The $790 billion economic stimulus package, which has now been agreed upon in principle by lawmakers after a contentious debate, included a number of items that... Read more...
Group wants Boston's non-profit hospitals to pay more to coffers
While Boston's eight biggest teaching hospitals own $2.4 billion in property, they paid just $4 million in voluntary payments to the city's coffers in 2007. That's simply not right, particularly... Read more...
MA sets CON rules based on price
Once again, Massachusetts is setting a precedent in how it regulates its healthcare market, this time by rolling out an unusual CON program based on the cost of a proposed facility rather than the... Read more...
Beth Israel faces questions on surgical resident work schedules
The group that oversees training of new doctors said this week that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is facing a critical review in which it must prove that it has reformed its ways when it comes... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Harvard teaching hospitals agree to joint research work
Hoping to make the most of their research dollars, a group of otherwise competitive Harvard teaching hospitals have decided to put aside their battle for status and pool their research efforts to... Read more...
