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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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Care for people with dementia must be more co-ordinated with better access to specialist services, a watchdog says.
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A website aims to allow patients to see how private and voluntary hospitals and health providers are performing.
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The quality of the health care provided to millions of Americans improved last year across several dozen categories, including increased immunization rates among insured children.
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Nursing homes, notorious places for voter fraud, need greater guidance on how to help residents vote, senators and elections advocates said Thursday.
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SUNDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Not every cancer patient is reaping the benefits of advances in medical care, new research shows.
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At two Capitol Hill hearings yesterday, legislators highlighted the need for greater transparency in nursing-home operations and called for a government probe into the quality of care given at facilities owned by private-equity firms.
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Veterans with diabetes get better  care under the Department of Veterans Affairs system than some  patients using managed care, U.S. researchers reported on  Monday and suggested nationalized health care can work well.
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Elderly and ill blacks in the United  States are more likely to live in poor-quality nursing homes,  researchers said on Tuesday in a study that shows clear  patterns of segregation persist.
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Rights at work for those who care for relatives who are elderly or have disabilities, could be strengthened later.
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It can cover at-home care, too -- not just nursing-home care.
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Washington&#39;s nursing homes reduced their residents&#39; pain and used fewer physical restraints over the last two years. But the percentage of residents suffering from bedsores increased slightly.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The health of Americans is improving, but it&#39;s not getting better quite as fast in Florida and other southern states, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has called for the contribution of temporary workers within the nursing sector to be recognised and enhanced following a Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report on the UK nursing market The RCN report shows
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More than 98 percent of US hospitals are now reporting quality-of-care data for treating heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid said on Thursday.
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The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients has dropped by nearly a quarter in two years, and fewer residents report suffering from pain, according