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What Is the Difference Between a Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest?

Mercola

2 In comparison, more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the U.S. 3 While around 60% of heart attack patients survive, the survival rate drops dramatically to about 5% to 10% for those who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting. Atherosclerosis develops gradually and often goes unnoticed.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. These systems demonstrated that they are capable of producing, rapidly and on demand, demonstrable social benefit.