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One Hospital Tells Bronx's Sick: You Call Us, We'll Call You

Amanda Aronczyk

June 03, 2014 |

WNYC |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Hospitals in New York improve healthcare quality and reduce medical costs by staying in frequent contact with patients requiring frequent or long-term care. Montefiore's Accountable Care Organization pulls in care providers from across the medical and social spectrum to improve patient health while curbing expenses.

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In Delivery Rooms, Reducing Births of Convenience

Tina Rosenberg

May 07, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The rate of Cesarean sections is on the rise in the United States, despite the higher risks of hysterectomy, hemorrhage, and infection, as well as the elevated expense. San Francisco General’s maternity ward, however, stands as an outlier by following evidence-based medicine that suggests decreasing C-sections and has also shifted from a pay-per-service incentive for the doctors to a salary or shift position.

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Reducing Early Elective Deliveries

Tina Rosenberg

March 12, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, South Carolina

Reducing cases of early birth deliveries shouldn’t have been hard — at least, they should have been easier to change than many other harmful practices. But it was - until hospitals started introducing models for change, creating accountability and changing payment systems. This article looks at a range of solutions happening across the country that serve as a model for other healthcare providers.

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Riverside Med Center drastically cuts infection rates

Stephanie O'Neill

January 31, 2014 |

Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Pasadena, California

Infection rates - once kept private by hospitals - are now public record in 32 states, California included. This new transparency - coupled with Medicare now docking payments to hospitals that don’t meet quality measures - is prompting innovation at many hospitals with high infection rates.

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To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data

Tina Rosenberg

December 04, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Available statistics on hospital safety don’t tell the public what they need to know to make informed decisions. A dose of data to increase transparency and accountability could be the answer.

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Caring for mentally ill: 3 counties' success stories

Brian M. Rosenthal

October 06, 2013 |

The Seattle Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Yakima, Washington

There is a mental-health capacity crisis gripping Washington state. The area’s response approach, crafted over two decades, centers on a set of intensive outpatient and early-intervention programs aimed at preventing hospitalizations.

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Revealing a Health Care Secret: The Price

Tina Rosenberg

July 31, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

An Oklahoma surgery center made news by posting its prices online – a revolutionary idea in an industry where consumers normally are buying blind. This is a big reason health care costs so much, but recent months have seen great advances in transparency.

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Facebook Raises The Status Of Organ Donation, Study Shows

Ankita Rao

June 18, 2013 |

Kaiser Health News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Medical professionals say that there is a shortage of organs available for patients awaiting transplants. The first step towards the solution involves increasing awareness of organ donation as a viable and compassionate option. In 2012, the social media platform Facebook collaborated with surgeons to create the Organ Donor option—and, one year later, the number of organ donors increased five times.

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The Sense of an Ending

Rebecca Mead

May 20, 2013 |

The New Yorker |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s or similar illnesses, and that number is growing as the population ages - without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions. An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

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Hospital uses power of architecture to promote healing

Frances Bula

May 06, 2013 |

The Globe and Mail |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Sechelt, British Columbia

The architecture of a hospital can have huge effects on those inside it: the strain that old hospital buildings put on nurses, who spend too much of their time walking from one supply room to another, and on patients, whose already frail health is tested by living in rooms with one to three other patients, by the noise of the hospital, by infections. St. Mary’s Hospital in Sechelt, B.C., opened a new $44-million dollar building that has made the inside quality of life and care better.

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