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Jun 26, 2007	Hospital Board Refuses To Resign: Members Contend Johnson's Demand Is Undemocratic QUOTE: Johnson contended the move would provide more public accountability for a board whose mismanagement he says has compounded the system's problems… [But] critics believe his move against the board is a thinly veiled attempt to gain greater control over its membership and the fate of the system.	Washington Post
Jun 18, 2007	Little Relief on Ward 53: At Walter Reed, Care for Soldiers Struggling With War's Mental Trauma Is Undermined by Doctor Shortages and Unfocused Methods QUOTE: For amputees, the nation's top Army hospital offers state-of-the-art prosthetics and physical rehab programs... [but] Nothing so gleaming exists for soldiers with diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder...	Washington Post
Jun 10, 2007	Ailing Patient at St. Elizabeths Poorly Monitored, Agency Says: Man with Stomach Pains Later Died QUOTE: A mental patient who complained of stomach pains was not properly examined or monitored in the hours before his dead body was discovered...[Washington DC's] Department of Mental Health found many of the same problems that have affected St. Elizabeths for years...	Washington Post
Jun 01, 2007	Hospitals Nationwide Combat Employee Camera-Phone Abuse QUOTE: A rash of incidents in hospitals across the country involving camera phones has led to firings -- and the realization that monitoring the devices in clinical facilities is no easy task.	Wired
May 27, 2007	Critical Care Without Consent: Ethicists Disagree On Experimenting During Crises QUOTE: The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting patients' permission.	Washington Post
May 22, 2007	Film Offers New Talking Points in Health Care Debate QUOTE: Few of them may become Michael Moore fans. But some insurance industry officials and health policy experts acknowledged yesterday that the film documentary “Sicko,” Mr. Moore’s indictment of health care in this country, taps into widespread public concern that the system does not work for millions of Americans.	New York Times
Apr 25, 2007	Fight over baby's life divides ethicists QUOTE: The law, signed in 1999 by then-Gov. George W. Bush, gives Texas hospitals the authority to stop treatment if doctors say the treatment is "inappropriate" -- even if the family wants the medical care to continue. The statute was inspired by a growing debate in medical and legal communities over when to declare medical treatment futile.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Apr 17, 2007	Dosing For Dollars QUOTE: The conclusions in the JAMA study also underline flaws in the way Medicare reimbursement for dialysis treatment is currently structured. Most of the 335,000 kidney failure patients in the U.S. who receive dialysis are covered by Medicare, no matter how old they are....Medicare reimburses dialysis centers directly for this treatment at a fixed amount. But reimbursement for the use of Epogen is not capped; instead, it is based on the amount of the drug that is used. Perhaps not surprisingly, Medicare spends more money on Epogen--nearly $2 billion--than on any other drug.	Forbes
Mar 07, 2007	It's Not Just Walter Reed: Still more ways Bush is screwing returning vets. QUOTE: The scandals and shortfalls in the military's health-care system stem from the same sensibility that produced the scandals and shortfalls in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It is the Bush administration's sensibility of denial—its willful disinclination to face war's true cost (in all senses of the word) and its readiness to use bookkeeping tricks to perpetuate the deception.	Slate
Feb 18, 2007	Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility QUOTE: Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses	Washington Post
Jan 10, 2007	Canadian Report on SARS Cites Health System Failures QUOTE: "The SARS epidemic that killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003 spread because of a shoddy public health system and inadequate safety practices...Throughout much of the epidemic, Canadian authorities assured the public and health workers that precautions were being taken to prevent the disease's spread."	Washington Post
Dec 01, 2006	Side Effects: Profit and Questions on Prostate Cancer Therapy QUOTE: "The nearly 240,000 men in the United States who will learn they have prostate cancer this year have one more thing to worry about: Are their doctors making treatment decisions on the basis of money as much as medicine?"	New York Times
Nov 21, 2006	Studies: Hospitals Could Do More to Avoid Infections: Poor Hygiene, Operating Room Traffic, Antibiotic Use Are Cited QUOTE: "Infections acquired in hospitals, which take a heavy toll on patients, arise mainly from poor hygiene in hospital procedures, not from how sick patients were when they were admitted, according to three new studies."	Washington Post
Nov 04, 2006	Scientists Urge New Trial in Libya AIDS Case QUOTE: "With five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on trial in Tripoli on charges that they spread H.I.V. to 426 Libyan children, hundreds of prominent scientists are rallying in their defense, calling for a new and fairer trial."	New York Times
Sep 12, 2006	10 Things Your Hospital Won't Tell You QUOTE: in recent years errors in treatment have become a serious problem for hospitals, ranging from operating on the wrong body part to medication mix-ups.	Smart Money
Aug 26, 2006	In South Central L.A., a Hospital Fights for Its Life: Medical Center Born Out of Watts Riots Tries to Save Its Accreditation After Years of Deteriorating Care, Administrative Neglect QUOTE: A storied hospital, born out of the ashes of the iconic Watts riots of 1965 and a symbol of the promise of black political power, is on life support, and a federal agency could soon pull the plug.....county officials predict a health crisis across this county of 10 million people...	Washington Post
Aug 20, 2006	Hospitals Grew With Medicare Paying the Way QUOTE: What happened at this health care system, based largely in suburbs throughout New Jersey, is representative of how hundreds of hospitals around the country, facing pressures from cuts in reimbursements by private insurers, improperly charged the taxpayer-financed Medicare program billions of dollars.	New York Times
Aug 03, 2006	Scaling Back Changes to Medicare Payments QUOTE: Under intense pressure from health care lobbyists and lawmakers, the Bush administration says it will scale back and delay proposed changes in Medicare payments to hospitals that would have created clear winners and losers.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2006	Prescription Errors Kill, Injure Americans, Report Says: Extensive National Study Finds Widespread, Costly Mistakes in Giving and Taking Medicine QUOTE: At least 1.5 million Americans are sickened, injured or killed each year by errors in prescribing, dispensing and taking medications, the influential Institute of Medicine concluded in a major report released yesterday.	Washington Post
Jul 21, 2006	Report Finds a Heavy Toll From Medication Errors QUOTE: Medication errors harm 1.5 million people and kill several thousand each year in the United States, costing the nation at least $3.5 billion annually...health officials and hospital groups pledged reforms, but many of the most important efforts have been slow to take hold.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2006	Language barriers plague hospitals QUOTE: Many hospital patients who have a limited ability to speak English and who need a translator don't get one, which puts them at risk for poor and sometimes life-threatening medical care...	USA TODAY
Jul 18, 2006	Texas Hospitals Reflect the Debate on Immigration QUOTE: Facing harsh criticism from residents, public hospitals are confronted with an uneasy decision: demand immigration documents from patients and deny subsidized care to those who lack them, or follow the public health principle of providing basic care to anyone who needs it.	New York Times
Jun 30, 2006	Medicaid Rule Called A Threat To Millions: Proof of Citizenship Needed for Benefits QUOTE: A Medicaid rule takes effect tomorrow that will require more than 50 million poor Americans to prove their citizenship or lose their medical benefits or long-term care. Under the rule, intended to curb fraud by illegal immigrants...unintended consequence of harming several million U.S. citizens who, for a variety of reasons, will not be able to produce the necessary paperwork.	Washington Post
Jun 29, 2006	20% of U.S. Transplant Centers Are Found To Be Substandard QUOTE: Medicare allows 20% of the 236 programs in the U.S. to stay in business despite performing too few operations or having low survival rates.	USA TODAY
Jun 21, 2006	Suit Claims Hospitals Fixed Nurses' Pay QUOTE: hospitals had violated federal antitrust laws by conspiring to hold down nurses' wages. The lawsuits maintain that hospitals in each city agreed not to pay their registered nurses above a certain amount...	New York Times
Jun 01, 2006	Low Payments by U.S. Raise Medical Bills Billions a Year QUOTE: Employers and consumers are paying billions of dollars more a year for medical care to compensate for imbalances in the nation's health care system resulting from tight Medicare and Medicaid budgets...	New York Times
May 11, 2006	Zimbabweans Pay Dearly For Cost of Health Care: Hyperinflation Pushes Medical Treatment Beyond Means of Most QUOTE: ...Zimbabwe's beleaguered, cash-starved health system refuses treatment to those who cannot pay skyrocketing medical bills up front.	Washington Post
May 11, 2006	Probe Chronicles Abuse in Romania: Disabled Children Found Bound, Emaciated in Psychiatric Institutions QUOTE: In six [Romanian--Ed.] institutions visited by the disabled rights organization, investigators found malnourished children warehoused in inhumane conditions.	Washington Post
Feb 10, 2006	More Vets Get Health Care, but 'Priority 8' Is Like Priority Zero QUOTE: More than a quarter-million "Priority 8" veterans who tried to sign up for VA health care coverage between January 2003 and October 2005 were turned away because of the new effort to rein in costs.	Washington Post
Dec 17, 2005	Medical Care: Dispute Over Historic Hospital for the Poor Pits Doctors Against the State QUOTE: The state officials who manage Charity say Hurricane Katrina dealt this Huey Long-era landmark a deathblow and want it torn down....But doctors who work there sharply disagree with that plan. They say Louisiana officials are using the storm as an excuse to achieve the state's long-sought goal of demolishing Charity, getting millions in federal dollars to build a new hospital, and then moving away from a promise that has long been made to the city's poor.	New York Times
Dec 13, 2005	More Scrutiny Sought For Reused Devices: House Member Questions FDA's Role QUOTE: A key member of Congress called yesterday for more rigorous federal oversight of reused medical devices designated as one-time-use instruments.	Washington Post
Dec 11, 2005	Hospitals Save Money, But Safety Is Questioned QUOTE: A growing number of U.S. hospitals, including at least eight in the Washington area, are saving money by reusing medical devices designated for one-time use, ignoring the warnings of manufacturers, which will not vouch for the safety of their reconditioned products.	Washington Post
Nov 24, 2005	Once a C-Section, Always a C-Section?: Women Who Want to Try Labor on Later Deliveries Are Increasingly Refused QUOTE: ...an increasing number of hospitals refuse to let women try labor after an earlier C-section, citing concerns about safety and being sued if something goes wrong.	Washington Post
Nov 12, 2005	A Health Threat We're Not Treating: Don't Let Doctors Rig the Market for Specialty Hospitals QUOTE: The rules that define legitimate behavior by specialty hospitals will play a decisive role in determining whether they become primarily instruments of high profits -- profits produced by clever schemes to minimize risk and leave all the expensive cases to community hospitals and taxpayers.	Washington Post
Oct 26, 2005	Study Finds Doctors Abandoning Poor Nations for Rich Ones QUOTE: A new study documents for the first time the devastating exodus of doctors from Africa and the Caribbean to the wealthy, English-speaking nations...The study is likely to fuel an already furious debate about the role the developed world is playing in weakening African public health systems...	New York Times
Oct 14, 2005	'Blind' trust allows plenty of looking QUOTE: The idea was to avoid conflicts of interest...The Senate's idea of a blind trust, however, allows for lots of looking.	Montgomery Advertiser
Aug 22, 2005	Forcing a Look at Hospitals' Mission: Adventist Facilities Accused of Price-Gouging, Denying Care to Uninsured Patients QUOTE: In the past year, lawyers for the poor have filed federal lawsuits in 22 states accusing nonprofit hospitals of failing to meet their tax-exempt obligations to provide indigent care.	Washington Post
Jul 29, 2005	Plan Would Compile, Analyze Medical Errors: Measure Awaiting Bush's Signature Encourages Confidential Reporting to Improve Health Care QUOTE: ...Congress this week passed long-debated legislation aimed at improving patient safety...would create a network for reporting and analyzing medical errors, with a goal of reducing future mistakes.	Washington Post
Jul 25, 2005	Accreditors Blamed for Overlooking Problems: Conflict of Interest Cited Between Health Facilities, Group That Assesses Conditions QUOTE: ...the joint commission's practices raise questions about potential conflicts of interest and the rigor of its hospital surveys... About 99 percent of the hospitals reviewed by the joint commission win accreditation, and in recent years it has missed glaring examples of poor care in which patients have been injured or killed...	Washington Post
Jul 24, 2005	When Geography Influences Treatment Options: Physicians in Some Regions Are More Likely to Advise Surgery Over Less-Invasive Alternatives QUOTE: ...a jigsaw pattern of medical care in which the patient's chance of having surgery often is decided by where he or she happens to live. In Fort Myers, Medicare patients are twice as likely to have back surgery as those in Miami.	Washington Post
Jul 24, 2005	Early Deals Set the Stage for Today's Problems QUOTE: 'By law, Medicare was prohibited from explicitly considering cost when deciding whether to pay for a new treatment or machine, an edict that remains in place today. "Essentially, they were paying claims," Feder said. "They were simply turning over the keys to the Treasury to the providers."'	Washington Post
Jul 21, 2005	U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System QUOTE: ...Medicare, which says the lack of electronic records is one of the biggest impediments to improving health care, has decided to step in. In an unprecedented move, it said it planned to announce that it would give doctors - free of charge - software to computerize their medical practices.	New York Times
Apr 24, 2005	Hospitals Services Performed Overseas: Training, Licensing Questions Raised QUOTE: NightHawk and several other companies providing the offshore radiology services say they hire only U.S.-trained doctors who are licensed in every state where they have clients and credentialed at the hospitals they serve. But policing the services remains a concern.	Washington Post
Mar 30, 2005	A Family's Painful Journey QUOTE: ...Rieck was charged with abandonment because she would not take Jessica home without support. Rieck said she didn't feel safe. "She's got too much rage, too much anger,"...	Washington Post
Mar 26, 2005	U.S. Conducts Inquiry Into St. Elizabeths: Patients' Civil Rights Are at Issue QUOTE: ...a Mental Health Department consultant found that the hospital had "dangerously low" staffing and needed considerable improvement in its management and use of restraints. The consultant, Richard Fields, said in the report that he was most concerned by the risk posed by staffing problems.	Washington Post
Jan 29, 2005	Tax-Exempt Hospitals' Practices Challenged: 46 Lawsuits Allege That Uninsured Pay the Most QUOTE: The business practices of nonprofit hospitals are under attack on several fronts. The IRS is said to be investigating management's compensation, and Congress conducted hearings last summer on price-gouging claims.	Washington Post
Sep 28, 2004	Higher Costs, Less Care: Data Show Crisis In Health Insurance QUOTE: In the past four years, Americans have spent an ever-growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, forcing millions into the ranks of the uninsured or personal bankruptcy...	Washington Post
Jul 27, 2004	Checking Up on Hospitals: New Web Site Rates Facilities' Performance in Heart, Pregnancy, Pneumonia Care QUOTE: The nation's largest health care accrediting organization has launched a Web site that lets consumers compare patient care at hospitals statewide and nationally.	Washington Post
Jun 28, 2004	Wary Employee Questions Hanger Orthopedic Billing QUOTE: ...alleged that Hanger executives and directors caused shares in the company to trade at artificially inflated levels by issuing false and misleading financial statements.	Washington Post
Jun 27, 2004	Killer Billing Errors: Duplicate Charges. Faulty Totals. Your Hospital's Mistakes Can Ruin You QUOTE: "Shame on the insurance company for paying a bill immediately, apparently without understanding what they were paying for. . . . And how can the hospital be charging these insane amounts and giving lame excuses about codes?	Washington Post

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