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‘Hospital, Heal Thyself:’ Book shows few hospitals adopt beneficial methods

Association of Health Care Journalists

Over those 25 years, the few hospitals and health systems that have adopted IHOs methods have had excellent results, according to an award-winning new book, Hospital, Heal Thyself (Wiley). The author is Mark Taylor, a health care journalist and AHCJ member who has covered Litvak and IHO for 18 years. Berwick , M.D.,

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NC defendants with mental illness wait months in jail for court-ordered treatment

NC Health News

By Rachel Crumpler For nearly a year, Jake Davis languished in jail, waiting for a bed in a state-run psychiatric hospital to get court-ordered mental health treatment. His mother, Jama Hinson, said he committed those crimes while in a state of psychosis.

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The Network Appoints Allison N. Winnike as Director, Western Region

The Network for Public Health Law

She has drafted numerous pieces of federal and state legislation that have shaped the landscape of public health. Her contributions to public health emergency preparedness and response are widely recognized, having published two books and multiple articles that have made a significant impact in the field. Allison holds a J.D.

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Between Hope and Grief: A Medical Memoir of Father, Son, and Family

The Health Care Blog

Over three years, I wrote a book titled RESERVATIONS for NINE: A DOCTORS FAMILY CONFRONTS CANCER, published earlier this month and timed to CRC Awareness Month. A labor of love and grief, its a book about family, love, loss, science and spirituality. Many books have been written about cancer. But this one is unique.

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Teachers, state employees voice frustration over State Health Plan

NC Health News

Mega-hospitals play a role The fact that a payer as large as the State Health Plan is struggling with rising costs underscores the depth of North Carolinas affordability problem, said Ciara Zachary, an assistant professor in health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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M4A as a Swing Issue

The Health Care Blog

The phrase derives from a 2004 book “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” In the book, Frank detailed the transformation of Kansas from a “hotbed of left-wing populism” to a center of “anti-elitist conservatism in the United States” and exposed the state’s remarkable capacity to vote against its own economic self-interests.

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How Did We End Up with a Broken Health Insurance System? 

The Health Care Blog

Health insurance wasnt always run by big for profit corporations According to Elizabeth Rosenthals book, An American Sickness (a must read), it all started in the 1920s when the Vice President of Baylor University Medical Center discovered that they were carrying a large number of unpaid bills.