Tag: choosing a hospital

New Guide Explains Hospitalist Role

Next Step in Care, a campaign by the United Hospital Fund has published a useful guide explaining the role of the hospitalist. In most hospitals, there are now special doctors called ‰ÛÏhospitalists.‰Û They manage patient care during the hospitalization. This is a job that used to be done by doctors...

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Healthcare Doesn’t Hit Home Until It’s Personal

We have had some health issues with mom this year. At 89 we almost lost her but she is a trooper. It occurred to me that despite my 26 years in healthcare, I knew little really about the healthcare experience. So here are two blogs I guest wrote. The first...

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10 Things Your Hospital Won’t Tell You

This is a great article from MSN. I have to admit though I worked in and now with hospitals there was information that I was surprised to read. For example – “Avoid hospitals in July like the plague.” If you can, stay out of the hospital during the summer ‰ÛÓ...

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Beware the Outspoken Board Member

An outspoken member of the Grady hospital board, an Atlanta facility experiencing a severe money crunch, last week took it upon himself to hand a neighboring county a $4 million bill for Grady services, implying that the hospital would not be in a money crunch if it didn’t have to...

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