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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday the creation of the Office of Recovery Act Coordination to help ensure the timely, organized and transparent distribution of economic stimulus funds managed by HHS.
Twenty-one percent of U.S. residents reported difficulty paying for needed medical care or medications in December 2008, up from 18 percent that January, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected 16 hospitals to participate in the first two cohorts of a collaborative project engaging nurses and other frontline staff to improve the quality of patient care.
The healthcare industry broadly agrees that payment reform is key to healthcare reform, according to Tuesday's keynote speaker at the National Pay for Performance Summit.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia to manage a new $19 million program called Public Health Law Research.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is visiting community health centers across the state this week to announce an agreement with the Missouri Hospital Association to provide healthcare to nearly 35,000 additional parents – at no increased cost to the state's taxpayers.
California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to “embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality,” according to a recent RAND Corporation study.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) have called on Congress to pass comprehensive healthcare reform legislation for President Obama to sign by July 4.
The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that applications are now available for $1.5 billion in grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
As economic difficulties continue to hit hospitals hard, two Milwaukee-area health systems have decided to share certain hospital-based physician services in an attempt to save money.