Report identifies top quality hospitals
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NEW YORK  - People treated at high-quality hospitals are more likely to survive and less likely to develop complications, according to a new report on more than 5,000 US hospitals.
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SUNDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDayNews) -- A new tool to assess the quality of home health care for the elderly and people with disabilities has been developed by an international team that includes University of Michigan researchers.
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For-profit nursing homes and hospitals  on average provide an inferior quality of care compared with  their nonprofit peers, according to an extensive review of  studies published on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON A new government report shows that shedding a light on nursing home practices may help improve patient care. The Bush administration findings show improvement in key measurements of nursing home
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NEW YORK  - Contrary to what might be expected, the quality of care that patients receive increases with the number of medical conditions they have, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that works to improve health care quality.    Wild variations in medical care led to 79,000 avoidable deaths and $1.8 billion in additional medical costs last year, the private National Committee for Quality Assurance said in its annual report released Wednesday...
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In the long run, survival after cancer surgery appears to differ little at hospitals designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as "centers of excellence" compared with other high-volume hospitals, according to a new report.
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The government gave hospitals around the country a public report card Thursday that measures their performance in the treatment of patients suffering from heart attacks or heart failure.
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In Sept. 21 NEW YORK story headlined &quot;Survey chides quality of 1 in 10 nursing homes&quot; please read in first paragraph ... inadequate quality in a survey of state inspection reports ... instead of ... consistently inadequate quality since the year 2000 .
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The education inspectorate Ofsted has listed schools which have had outstanding reports over the past decade.
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NEW YORK  - Patients who undergo heart transplant surgery in hospitals that perform 14 or more procedures each year achieve better outcomes than patients who undergo this procedure at hospitals that perform fewer heart transplants.
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How a hospital deployed a wireless system that is significantly improving patient care and has a stellar return-on-investment.
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Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing the human toll that medical errors exact at US hospitals, Americans do not believe the nation&#39;s quality of health care has improved, a new survey finds.
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More patients visiting A&E are being seen quickly but there is still room for improvement, an official report says.
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Hawaii, the first U.S. state to mandate that employers provide health insurance for workers, scored best among its peers in providing safe and affordable medical care, a report released on Wednesday found.
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National Committee for Quality Assurance&#39;s annual State of Health Care Quality report is the culmination of a year&#39;s worth of measurement and data collection, the goal of which is to help drive improvement by providing as complete a view of health care
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Low-rated industries that have top-notch performance.