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Tags: deeming authority | hospital accreditation | The Joint Commission

The Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the continuation of deeming authority for The Joint Commission's hospital accreditation program through July 15, 2014, according to a Joint Commission news release. Click to continue »  

Tags: Cleveland Clinic | healthcare reform | leadership | physicians | Toby Cosgrove

Teamwork, good leadership and improving the quality of healthcare in the United States are three critical aspects that contribute to improving healthcare says Toby Cosgrove, MD, CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, according to an interview in U.S. News & World Report.
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Tags: Alabama | Coffee Health Group | Helen Keller Hospital | Huntsville Hospital

Coffee Health Group, a two-hospital health system based in Florence, Ala., and Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Ala., are seeking a possible merger with Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital, according to a report by the Times Daily.
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Tags: Cleveland Clinic | Explorys

Explorys, a newly formed company, has developed a search engine that will allow healthcare organizations to search an electronic database of de-identified patient data, according to a report by AMEDNews.
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Tags: California | CEO | UCSD Medical Center

Thomas Jackiewicz has been named as the new CEO of the University of California, San Diego Medical Center, where he will manage nearly 5,300 employees, including 700 physicians, according to a report in the San Diego Business Journal.
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Tags: Indiana | OrthoIndy | orthopedic surgeon | St Vincent Clay Hospital

Chris P. Bales, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at OrthoIndy, has joined the medical staff at 58-bed St. Vincent Clay Hospital in Brazil, Ind., according to a report by the Brazil Times.
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Tags: closing | Pennsylvania | UPMC | UPMC Braddock Hospital

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's plan to close 123-bed UPMC Braddock Hospital on Jan. 31, 2010, is causing a storm of protest, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Tags: American College of Surgeons | medical errors | surgeons

In a survey of surgeons commissioned by the American College of Surgeons, 8.9 percent of respondents said they were concerned they had made a "major medical error" in the past three months, according to an article on the survey in the Annals of Surgery.
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Tags: healthcare reform | Senate health bill

The 2,074-page Senate health reform bill, released Nov. 18, proposes a sweeping set of changes in the Medicare program, according to a report in Health Affairs.
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Tags: Cincinnati | hospitals | Ohio

Some Cincinnati area hospitals are performing better than others, as Ohio hospitals prepare to start paying a new a franchise fee that will be used to increase Medicaid payments to them, according to a report by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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