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The four hospitals combined will require more than $300 million in state operating assistance in FY2017 to keep doors open, the report said.
There is still no way to decrypt the virus, first discovered in March. It's now spreading via Facebook messenger.
Only 2.5 percent of psychiatric patients seen at transitional care clinic return to ER within three months.
Using its claims data and analytics, Cigna will alert these doctors when their opioid prescribing patterns are not consistent with CDC guidelines.
Decline in dementia rates translates to about one million fewer Americans suffering from the condition, expert says.
Farid Fata, Detroit-area cancer doctor, was convicted of raking in over $17 million by poisoning patients with unnecessary chemotherapy, other drugs.
Rockwood Health sale is the latest in string of divestitures for struggling CHS; financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The infections account for roughly 5 percent of hospitals infections, and are deadly in a quarter of cases.
Memorial Hermann Sugar Land becomes the first Houston-area hospital, and the third in Texas, to win the award.
The hospital has a model 2 bundled payment program for its congestive heart failure patients.