Two other Seattle hospitals, Swedish Medical Center/First Hill and Swedish Medical Center/Cherry Hill, were both listed in the top 100 hospitals of the year by The Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety and quality improvement organization.
Despite the world economic crisis, funding for global health from both public and private donors continues to rise, albeit more slowly, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle.
But aid is not necessarily going where the need is greatest, the report finds.
You can now go online to compare the surgical infection rates of Washington hospitals for seven procedures as well as see how well they do complying with a variety of infection control measures. The website allows users to sort the hospitals by county, alphabetically and from highest to lowest or lowest to highest infection rates and to compare local hospital rates with the averages for Washington State, the nation and the top 10 percent hospitals nationwide.
The insurance plan for Oregon public education employees encourages enrollees to get care of proven value but charges an extra $500 for services of less certain value including spinal surgery, knee and shoulder arthroscopy, hip and knee replacement and upper endoscopy exams.
That’s what President Obama should tell Congressional Republicans, says Princeton health economist Uwe E. Reinhardt.
His logic: The GOP would have to come up with its own solutions to the health cost crisis, many of which, he wagers, would look much like parts of the current law.
“I think it would be a healthy thing,” he says.
A free half-day workshop on hepatitis B will be held Saturday, Dec. 4th at the Asian Counseling & Referral Services Community Hall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way S.
The workshop’s talks will be given by Dr. Chia Wang, an infectious disease specialist at Virginia Mason Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Chen, a cancer specialist at Polyclinic First Hill.
Every premium increase is now blamed on the new health law. But studies show that only 1 to 2 percent of next year’s increases are the due to the legislation.
Whole Foods Market says cheeses it sells from Bravo Farms have been recalled due to evidence of Listeria and E. coli contamination at the Bravo Farms’ plant.
Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) levels pose health risk, health officials warn.
Liberals are calling for Republican congressmen who oppose health care reform to forgo their own taxpayer-funded health care benefits.
Nearly 60 percent of lower-income adults with high-deductible health plans say they delayed or went without needed care because of cost concerns.
Carbon monoxide is produced whenever any fuel such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood, or charcoal is burned and can build up to dangerous levels quickly so that victims are overcome before they can escape or seek help.
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