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RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Businesses and health care purchasers no longer have to guess which Virginia hospitals and nursing facilities rank best in financial and operational performance. Virginia Health Information (VHI) takes the guesswork out of finding this information with the release of its annual 2011 Industry Report: Virginia Hospital & Nursing Facilities, which reports efficiency rankings, providers' costs, profits and charity care....
MIAMI, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spanish radio stations owned and operated by Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) (Nasdaq: SBSA) in New York, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay area, conducted fundraising Radiothons benefiting local children's hospitals this past weekend resulting in $1,145,522 raised in donations and pledges. The Radiothons were produced live in each of the markets and were tailored to the musical formats of each of the stations' listening audience. New York's...
SHELTON, Connecticut, October 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- International medical imaging IT company, Sectra [http://www.sectra.com/medical ] (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: SECT B), announces the signing of a multi-year Master Research Agreement with University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland. UH and Sectra will collaborate to develop solutions and enhancements in medical imaging with the goals of improving patient care, delivering better healthcare at lower costs, and boosting the efficiency...
Hospital Case Studies Can Be Found at www.CaringisourCalling.org SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Every year, more than 50,000 sick or premature babies are delivered in California's community hospitals. Typically, these vulnerable infants have immature immune systems and are at risk for acquiring infections. To address this problem, Riverside County Regional Medical Center in 2009 implemented a new program to eliminate infections in its neonatal unit. As a...
MECHANICSBURG, Pa., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Select Medical Holdings Corporation (NYSE: SEM), the parent of Select Medical Corporation, will release the financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2011 on Thursday, November 3, 2011 after the market closes. The Company will host a conference call regarding its third quarter results and its business outlook on Friday, November 4, 2011, at 9:00am EDT. The domestic dial in number for the call is 1-800-706-7745. The...
TV Commercial, Website and Social Media Efforts Seek to Educate, Empower Patients SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Access to safe, high quality care for all patients is the mission of California's community hospitals. Through focused hospital-based initiatives and regional and statewide patient safety collaboratives, hospitals are leading the way into a new era in patient safety. To showcase these efforts, the California Hospital Association (CHA) today launched...
Referring patients with mental health problems to talking therapies seems to cut their use of healthcare services and the amount of sick leave they take, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The researchers assessed routinely collected healthcare data for more than 152,000 patients registered with family doctors in East London and in Yorkshire, in a bid to quantify the impact of common mental health problems, such as depression and...
GERMANTOWN, Md., Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Emergency Professionals (MEP), an emergency physician partnership and management group based in Germantown, announced Thursday it has won its first hospital contract to manage and staff an emergency department (ED) outside of Maryland. MEP will take over management of the ED at Bristol Hospital in Connecticut starting January 1, 2012. MEP currently manages five emergency departments in hospitals throughout Maryland as well as a...
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The STAT! For New York City's Public Hospitals! Gala Benefit will be held in the atrium of Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, from 6 to 8 p.m. Designed to raise awareness in support of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's (HHC) mission to promote the health and welfare of the people of the City of New York, the Gala also celebrates HHC's 35,000 staff members and the many and diverse communities served by HHC. This year's...
Nurse-led innovations popular among front-line staff ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty-three care teams from Minnesota hospitals gathered earlier this month to launch an 18-month project to improve care at patients' bedsides through nurse-led innovations. "Transforming Care at the Bedside" (TCAB) works to empower nurses and other bedside caregivers to suggest, test, and implement potential solutions to problems. This is the second TCAB project to be hosted in...
