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Daily Report: Health and Welfare

California emergency rooms average 274-minute waits

July 27, 2010, 12:05 AM
Patients visiting California emergency departments waited an average of four hours, 34 minutes last year. That's two minutes longer than they waited in 2008 and 27 minutes longer than the national average. The figures are part of a recent analysis of time spent in emergency departments by... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Is Southern California the best place to have a heart attack?

July 16, 2010, 12:05 AM
New Medicare data on California hospital cardiac care adds a fascinating twist to a lively debate about how much money hospitals spend treating patients and whether or not it's money well spent. Scholars who study health-care spending have noticed a “north-south divide" in... + read more
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Bill would cut pay for health care that harms

July 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
A bill moving through the legislature would potentially save Medi-Cal $13 million per year if doctors are not paid for care that leaves patients infected, burned or ridden with a serious bedsore. The point of the law, though, is not to save money. Rather, it’s to spur hospitals and... + read more
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State moves to revoke license of embattled hospitals

April 20, 2010, 12:09 AM
One week after Medicare announced that it will stop reimbursing two Riverside hospitals for care, state public health officials sent a letter yesterday telling executives that they plan to take the hospitals’ license away (in this case, two hospitals operate under one state license). ... + read more
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Riverside County hospitals stripped of Medicare funding

April 16, 2010, 12:07 AM
Federal Medicare officials told two Riverside County hospitals yesterday that they would no longer pay for seniors' care after June, signaling the end of a three-year process of trying to get the hospitals to follow basic care standards. Photo by U.S. Army The hospitals, Rancho Springs... + read more
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Laws will require hospitals to reveal more about infections, errors

April 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
Although California regulators don’t have to publicly post a number of hospital-related reports until 2015, a critical mass of information is starting to take shape. On Monday I posted spreadsheets provided by the Department of Public Health that list fines the state has levied against... + read more
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Hospitals fined more than $1 million for failing to report errors

April 12, 2010, 12:08 AM
California regulators have fined hospitals just over $1 million for failing to report incidents such as leaving a foreign object in a patient after a surgery or operating on the wrong person, according to data released to California Watch by the California Department of Public Health. The... + read more
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After death from childbirth, family wounds still healing

February 9, 2010, 12:03 AM
Trying to understand the rise in maternal mortality leads quickly into technical abstraction. Papers on this problem are stacked with words borrowed from mathematics and epidemiology: population health, statistical risk ratios, morbidity, physician practice patterns, indications, and outcomes.... + read more
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What does it take for Medicare to kick a hospital out of the program?

February 4, 2010, 12:10 AM
Two Riverside County hospitals face the prospect of Medicare sending its patients elsewhere, which will likely leave the hospitals too poor to operate or open a gleaming new unit. We reported as much Tuesday. But the question remains: How often does Medicare level the ultimate punishment on... + read more
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