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Hospitals Try House Calls to Cut Costs, Admissions0
- Health & Healing
- February 8, 2013
Many hospitals are now bringing back house calls, partially because they're facing financial penalties for re-admitting certain patients soon after discharge. Hospitals are also dealing with growing pressure to keep patients with chronic illness from being admitted in the first place. The Wall Street Journal, 2/5/2013
READ MOREHospitals Take On Post-ICU Syndrome, Helping Patients Recover0
- Health & Healing
- December 23, 2013
More patients who have been treated in the intensive-care unit (ICU) are experiencing negative side effects after release, which doctors call “post-intensive care syndrome.” Some of the life-saving measures that are used to keep patients pain-free and breathing can lead to “ICU delirium,” a temporary brain injury that can negatively impact memory and brain functioning.
READ MOREHospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.1
- Home & Family
- July 30, 2018
“What we know about those deaths is that most of them were absolutely preventable. They were from causes that we could have done something about. We could have prevented it if we had recognized the emergency early on.”
READ MOREHospitals Ditch Formula Samples to Promote Breast-Feeding0
- Home & Family
- October 22, 2012
Health authorities and breast-feeding advocates are leading a nationwide effort to ban formula samples, which experts say can sway women away from breast-feeding. New York Times, 10/15/2012
READ MOREHospital Staff Not Likely to Report Hospital Errors0
- Health & Healing
- January 9, 2012
A new report released Friday by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that more than 80 percent of hospital errors go unreported by hospital employees. Family members and patients themselves may be able to help combat these kinds of hospital errors by becoming more involved and educated, and
READ MOREHomework overload gets an ‘F’ from experts0
- Home & Family
- August 1, 2012
Has your child started gearing up for this school year's homework demands? According to research by Sydney University educational psychologist Richard Walker, kids who do more homework actually perform worse on standardized tests. TODAY.com, 7/27/2012
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