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The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home, Part 2 Community hospitals can provide care on par with any of the glittery big-name centers. Finding out if your local hospital is up-to-snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Avery Comarow	When You Need the Best Medical Care, Part 2 Basic hospital care doesn't always cut it. Here are more reasons to seek extra medical firepower, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals.
Managed Care March 2007	Competition Wins Over Centralization Insurers who recommend a particular provider or health care organization to a patient considering a surgical procedure need to determine how complex the procedure is and how frequently the surgeon performs the procedure.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Carol Marie Cropper	Women's Surgery: Less of an Ordeal Laparoscopy -- a minimally invasive technique -- can cut recovery times, leave smaller scars, reduce in-hopital stays, and lower costs. But many gynecologists are not trained to perform these operations, so you may have to ask for it.
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Carol Marie Cropper	The Robot Is In -- And Ready To Operate More and more surgeries -- from prostate to heart -- are being performed by doctors remotely guiding robotic arms.
American Family Physician October 15, 2006	Hirschsprung's Disease: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is Hirschsprung's Disease?... What are the symptoms?... How is it treated?... Where can I get more information?...
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Rare Surgeries Step aside Hollywood, the following are a few exciting and rare surgeries. Unlike their made-for-TV spin-offs, however, these rare surgeries are real.
Seasoned Cooking November 2004 Michael Fick	Take Charge of Your Health Care The U.S. health care system is the best in the world, but is heavily burdened. The only way to insure you are getting the best care is to get involved.
Fast Company May 2009 Chuck Salter	The Doctor of the Future Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today.
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2005 Sara Grant	From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology Turf wars and learning curves influence how new technology is adopted in hospitals. Harvard professors discuss the implications of their research for your organization.
Managed Care January 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Cardiologists Call Collaboration Heart of Effort To Improve Care Surgeons in nine hospitals formed a study group and then hit the road to learn from peers. Outcomes improved dramatically.
HBS Working Knowledge June 5, 2006 Porter & Olmsted Teisberg	Using Competition to Reform Healthcare The new book Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, takes a systemic approach to healthcare reform.
Civil War Times August 19, 2004 Alfred Jay Bollet	The Truth About Civil War Surgery If you think Civil War surgeons were ill-trained sawbones who loved to amputate -- usually without anaesthesia -- you need to read this!
Managed Care September 2005 Ed Silverman	No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney	Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer
Wired March 2003 Jennifer Kahn	Stripped for Parts Organ transplants are a brutal business. Just ask the donors. Our reporter spends a dark night with the living dead.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006	U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2006 Discover the top 3 hospitals nationwide in each medical specialty, plus the three hospitals that led the magazine's 2006 Honor Roll. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore... Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn... Cleveland Clinic... etc.
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Nursing Management February 2008 Susan Gallagher Camden	A Captive Condition: Childhood Obesity Both patient safety and caregiver injury are fast becoming serious considerations in managing care of children who are obese.
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Balfour & Kripalani	Over The Sea, Then Under The Knife Patients worldwide are heading to hospitals in Asia for affordable, high-quality surgery.
Managed Care February 2007 Maggie Mahar	Why Market Competition Will Not Mend Our Health Care System Doctors have a saying: 'Half of what we know is wrong.' In which half is the conventional wisdom that competition is society's best hope for improving quality and controlling costs?
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BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 Michael Arndt	An Alternative For Cancer Patients For-profit treatment centers are competing with community and teaching hospitals.
Managed Care May 2005 Frank Diamond	Hospitals May See Plans as Their New Confidant Not only can health plans pay for performance, they can offer a mechanism for confidential discussions of mistakes.
CFO January 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health.
Popular Mechanics October 2009	Robotic Surgeons Take Over at a Hospital Near You The tool-wielding wrists of the da Vinci can rotate 540 degrees and have seven degrees of freedom, making the tools of the mechanical surgeon more dexterous than instruments held in human fingers.
BusinessWeek May 29, 2006 John Carey	When More Medicine Is Less A Dartmouth study finds a greater risk of death among patients treated in high-cost hospitals and clinics - and highlights conflicts of interest.
Managed Care December 2007 Lola Butcher	Insurers Get Involved in Campaign Against Hospital-Acquired Infections Health plans prod hospitals to do a better job of addressing problems that kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year.
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman	Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate!
American Family Physician October 15, 2006 Jennifer Kessmann	Hirschsprung's Disease: Diagnosis and Management The disease most commonly involves the rectosigmoid region of the colon but can affect the entire colon and, rarely, the small intestine. The disease usually presents in infancy, although some patients present with persistent, severe constipation later in life.
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BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Lorraine Woellert	How Much Is That Brain Scan? If turning Americans into price-conscious health-care shoppers is ever going to work, it will require wholesale changes in many of the industry's most basic business practices.
Nursing Management June 2011 LaRocco & Pinchera	The emerging trend of medical tourism Although it's difficult to find accurate data, there's general agreement that the number of Americans seeking medical care abroad is growing.
CFO February 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Pin the Tail on the Doctor A dearth of information leaves health-care consumers in the dark. As health-care information becomes more accessible, will employees use it to purchase health-care services more intelligently?
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices.
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 Arlene Weintraub	Is the Hip Bone Connected To a Fee? An investigation alleges some orthopedics makers have showered surgeons with fees and perks.
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Nursing Management September 2011 Sally Austin	What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act?
IDB America September 2004 Daniel Drosdoff	A Smarter Use of Healthcare Dollars Trinidad restructures its health system in order to improve quality and make better use of facilities.
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Fast Company September 2006 Paul Lukas	Halcyon Hospitals In most respects, the Dream Hospital of 1953 barely hinted at future advances. But the biggest challenge hospitals may face is that medical advances could render entire wards -- and profit centers -- obsolete.
AskMen.com July 28, 2015 Tyson Lowrie	How To Tell If You Have A Bad Surgeon A new study by ProPublica, a patients' advocacy group, makes a damning claim: a relatively small number of surgeons are causing a disproportionate amount of complications, botched surgeries and occasionally deaths.
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll	Specialty Hospitals' Success Sows Seeds of Lobbying Fight Some in government question the propriety of physicians steering patients into facilities that the doctors partly own.