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One bright spot in the Moody's report shows rising nursing school enrollment, leading to a more robust long-term staffing pipeline.
D and F graded hospitals carry nearly twice the risk of mortality of A-graded hospitals, with over 50,000 lives at stake, according to Leapfrog analysis.
Tools like QLess allow patients to wait wherever they feel is convenient, and to come to the hospital when their number is called.
The proposed new recommendation would allow women at average risk for breast cancer to begin screening as early as age 40 and receive a mammogram every one or two years.
Dedicated funding is needed for research, the report says, and hospitals and doctors need to develop better ways to identify, reduce and learn from "near misses."
As the programs turn 50, Medicare and Medicaid's long role in funding medical education is finding itself stretched thin by looming nursing and physician shortages.
The trajectory of cancer care is so costly and problematic that insurers are flocking in droves to the federal government's multi-payer alignment experiment.
The long-standing problem of hospital-acquired infections, adverse events and medication errors is improving, new data suggest, although 1 in 25 hospital stays still comes with an infection.
The long-standing problem of hospital-acquired infections, adverse events and medication errors is improving, new data suggest, although 1 in 25 hospital stays still comes with an infection.
A new tool for modeling the physician workforce is now available for free to hospital and health system administrators, policy makers and others.
