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Swedish has added four physicians to its Gastroenterology team: Drs. John Brandabur, Drew Schembre, Nick Procaccini and David Patterson.
A new study finds female physicians’ average starting salaries earned nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts,
As politicians discuss tort reform and caps on damage awards, fans of mediation tout its potential to save patients, doctors and hospitals time and money and avoid the courtroom altogether
New hires include specialists in cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, otolaryngology, thoracic surgery, radiation oncology, and emergency medicine.
The Tuesday night talks will feature UW Medicine experts who will discuss such topics as efforts to improve patient-physician communication, new technology that helps patients with cystic fibrosis breathe better and new approaches to managing pain.
ACOs have been compared to the elusive unicorn: everyone seems to know what it looks like, but nobody’s actually seen one. Exactly how ACOs would work in practice remains to be seen, though that hasn’t stopped the health care industry from embarking on a frenzied quest to create them as quickly as possible.
If the cuts in Medicaid reimbursements rates are not reversed by the Legislature, additional lay-offs will occur and more than 100,000 patients may lose access to care, officials say.
Group Health study finds team approach may improve care of depressed patients with multiple medical problems. Battle continues over hospital expansion in south King County.
Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center has hired four new primary care physicians: Internists Dr. Christopher Berlin, Dr. Joy Bucher and Dr. Yukmila Soriano and Dr. Lars Kaine in Family Medicine.
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.
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.
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