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hospitals stories: 42 news summaries

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Lobbyists Deal Death Blows to Health Care Cost Cuts

Having KO'd most cuts, they're aiming at Cadillac tax and Medicare commission

Oct 11, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Who's winning the health care battle? Lobbyists, says the New York Times, who've succeeded in blocking virtually every avenue for cutting health care costs that has been put on the table. They've killed proposals that would pinch doctors, hospitals, insurers and employees who are the beneficiaries of so-called Cadillac health... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • hospitals • White House • lobbyists • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • health insurers • doctors

h1n1 outbreak

 Swine Flu Victims 
 Could Swamp Hospitals 

CDC estimates are more than US can handle

Oct 1, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hospitals will be in big trouble if the swine flu outbreak matches the flu pandemic of 1968. In that mild pandemic, 35% of Americans got sick. If that happened today, 15 states would run out of hospital beds, and another dozen would have to fill 75% of their beds with... More »

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hospitals • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • pandemic • swine flu • H1N1 virus

 Hospital Staff Suspended 
 Over 'Lying Down Game' 

Administrators not amused by Facebook-inspired antics

Sep 11, 09 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “lying down game,” an online pastime fueled by Facebook, has gotten seven British doctors and nurses suspended for uploading photos of themselves horizontal the job, Sky News reports. Hospital administrators say staff could get fired for breaking infection control regulations. The Facebook group that proposed the game... More »

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social networking • hospitals • Facebook • doctor • suspension • Britain • firing

(Newser) - Everybody's thinking small on health care reform, writes David Goldhill in the Atlantic. Our system is so abysmal—the headline on his lengthy piece is "How American Health Care Killed My Father"—that it needs a radical restructuring, and that should start with insurance. Let's just stop buying... More »

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health care • health insurance • hospitals • health care industry • health care reform • medical care

Hospitals Agree to $155B in Future Savings

Will accept lower payments for
Medicaid, Medicare

Jul 7, 09 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The nation’s hospitals have struck a deal with White House and Senate negotiators that will save the government $155 billion over 10 years, the Washington Post reports. The hospitals will accept lower-than-expected Medicare and Medicaid payments, and a gradual reduction in the amount paid to help care for... More »

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health care • Joe Biden • health care costs • hospitals • Senate Finance Committee • American Medical Association • health care reform • Obama administration • American Hospital Association

Obama Seeks Another $313B in Health Cuts

He wants to reduce Medicare payments
to hospitals

Jun 13, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to pay for his ambitious health care plans, Barack Obama today proposed another $313 billion in cuts to government health care spending over the next decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. That brings the total cuts proposed to nearly $950 billion, just shy of the $1... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • hospitals • Medicare • drug companies • universal health care • Medicaid • health care reform

(Newser) - Filthy, bug-infested Iraqi hospitals still lack basic equipment and supplies that could save thousands of lives, McClatchy reports. With sectarian violence down, doctors and aid groups are blaming government corruption for the nation's health woes. "The government has money," said a fourth-year resident at a Baghdad hospital.... More »

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Iraq • health care • Nouri al-Maliki • hospitals • corruption

(Newser) - The California hospital where Nadya Suleman's octuplets were born has been fined $250,000 for failing to stop employees from snooping into medical files on the famous case. "It's the hospital's job to prevent these breaches from occurring," said a state official shortly after imposing the fine against... More »

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California • parenting • hospitals • privacy • medical records • fine • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • penalty

 Docs Foresee Trouble 
 With Digitizing Records 

For electronic records, money is there but technology isn't

Mar 26, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The administration's push to digitize health records is raising red flags with an important constituency: doctors. "We have a long way to go," said the lead author of a report out today that shows only 9% of hospitals have computerized records. His article is part of a... More »

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hospitals • New England Journal of Medicine • software • health care reform • open source • digital storage • medical records • online medical records

Obama Pitches Bold Plan for Health Records

President-elect wants them all digital, but hurdles remain

Jan 12, 09 2:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is hoping an ambitious health care modernization plan will help deliver on two of his promises: increasing jobs and decreasing health care costs, CNNMoney reports. Obama has said he wants all US health records computerized within five years—a huge undertaking. More »

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health care • Barack Obama • hospitals • job creation • health records • doctors • President Obama

 ICUs Try to Get 
 Patients Out of Bed 

Mobile, lightly sedated patients fare better, study finds

Jan 12, 09 12:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Doctors are finding that ICU patients who are woken every day and even get up and walk around do better than those who remain heavily sedated, the New York Times reports. A recent study showed that just 5 days on a ventilator left some patients barely able to move. Problems... More »

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hospitals • doctors • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • intensive care unit • ICU

Scottish Docs Give Up Their White Coats

Dress code forbids iconic garment in effort to cut down infection

Dec 16, 08 12:33 PM CST
(Newser) - In a move intended to combat the spread of infections, Scotland will forbid doctors to wear the long white coats that have been a symbol of the medical profession for more than a century, the Guardian reports. The country will institute a dress code next year that bans not only... More »

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dress code • hospitals • Scotland • doctors

Nebraska Closes Loophole on Abandoning Unruly Kids

Lawmakers could set age limitation today

Nov 21, 08 10:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Nebraska lawmakers today closed a loophole that allowed parents to abandon their unruly teenagers and leave them in state custody, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The original law was meant to allow unwanted infants to be left at hospitals without penalty, but it lacked an age restriction. Since September, 35 children,... More »

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parenting • child care • hospitals • Nebraska • abandonment

 New Superbug Stalks Hospitals 

Thousands killed by drug-resistant pathogen

Nov 18, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A deadly new superbug is stalking the world's hospitals, health experts warned today. The pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii is a burgeoning threat and proving extremely difficult to control, with a third of outbreaks resistant to front-line antibiotics, according to a study in the Lancet. Of 24,000 US cases in a... More »

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health • hospitals • patients • superbug • antibiotics • infectious diseases • Acinetobacter

Nancy Reagan Released From LA Hospital

Doctors expect her to make 'full recovery'
after hip fracture

Oct 17, 08 8:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Reagan returned home today from a Los Angeles hospital after being treated for a broken pelvis, Reuters reports. For the 87-year-old widow of Ronald Reagan, who fell at her home last week, 2 days with doctors was enough: "I hope it won't hurt anyone's feelings if I don't... More »

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hospitals • Nancy Reagan • broken bone

TB Scare Unsettles Calif. Maternity Ward

Nearly 1K babies may have been exposed to worker with active case

Aug 27, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 1,000 babies born since March at a San Francisco hospital could have been exposed to tuberculosis, the Chronicle reports, by a maternity-ward worker with an active case. Kaiser Permanente says infection risk is very low, but testing and any treatment needed will be provided to 960 infants and... More »

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hospitals • baby • tuberculosis • Kaiser Permanente

Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

Stressed patients often make victims of healers on 'front lines'

Jul 8, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - People may be at their most human when in pain, but often turn their anguish on their would-be healers—and now nurses are calling on workplaces and lawmakers to be more vigilant against physical attacks, the New York Times reports. “Nurses are just starting to get to the place... More »

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health care • nurses • hospitals • assault

 Mennonites, Amish
 Battle Hospitals
 Over 'Inflated' Bills 

Struggle reveals rosy financial state of nonprofit hospitals

Jun 28, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Martin shuns health insurance and government aid, although nine of his kids are seriously ill. Like other self-sufficient Pennsylvania Mennonites, and Amish too, Martin avails modern medicine for the fatal diseases that are ravaging their families—but is hard-up to pay the bills, which Martin claims are inflated. "... More »

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medicine • hospitals • insurance • Amish • Mennonites

New Superbug Highlights Poor Hospital Hygiene

Deadly C. diff., aided by over-prescription of antibiotics, is on the rise

May 2, 08 5:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - A deadly new superbug—beefed up by the over-prescription of antibiotics and spread by dirty hospitals and nursing homes—is raising concern in the medical community, MSNBC reports. The so-called C. diff is a mutated form of a benign bug typically transmitted in unsanitary medical facilities, especially bathrooms. Cases are... More »

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hospitals • hygiene • staph infections • superbug • antibiotics • infection • drug resistant • Clostridium difficile

Nosy UCLA MDs Got Off Easier Than Other Staff

Some of the non-docs who peeked at Britney's files were fired

Apr 12, 08 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The MDs who wrongly looked at Britney Spears’ medical records while she was being treated on two occasions at UCLA hospitals have gotten off easier than other staff, the Los Angeles Times reports. Of the at least 53 snoopers, 18 non-doctors retired, resigned, or were dismissed, but none of... More »

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Britney Spears • hospitals • privacy • doctor • UCLA • confidential information • Maria Shriver • UCLA Medical Center • medical records • invasion • Farrah Fawcett

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