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Hospitals will cherry-pick lists: AMAQ

London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago

The federal government's plan to rate hospitals in a scorecard according to 70 different measures will lead to hospitals cherry-picking their patients, the Australian Medical Association's Queensland president Chris Davis says. He said a five-year review...

Health Data Management: Closing the Medication Loop

Bennington :: VT :: USA | 1 day ago

San Francisco-based McKesson Corp., and hospital information system from Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Management Systems. Nurses use a hand-held device to scan bar codes on their badge, the patient's wristband and the medication to verify that the...

Hospitals take air-conditioning from patients

Brisbane :: Australia | 1 day ago

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In what appears to be a new trend, hospitals are now turning the air-conditioning off in patient’s rooms. Not only do patient’s have to pay to watch even free-to-air television, now it seems, they aren’t allowed to comfort of...

Five men stabbed in Melbourne

Melbourne :: Australia | 2 days ago

Four men, all aged 22, were taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital after a stabbing in the city at 3.30am this morning. One has undergone surgery and is in a critical but stable condition after suffering a stab wound to his chest. The other three have serious...

Mission Hills hospital seeks permission to resume expansion project

Mission Hills :: KS :: USA | 20 days ago

A judge last month ordered construction halted pending further L.A...Hospital officials say the community, with dwindling ER options, cannot afford more delay. PM PST, November 11, 2008 A judge last month ordered Providence Holy Cross Medical Center...

PegasusNews.com, Dallas/Fort Worth: After six-organ transplant, McKinney child returning home

Dallas :: TX :: USA | about 1 month ago

Doctors performed a rare, six-organ transplant surgery, replacing Carter's large and small intestines, pancreas, liver, stomach, and spleen. In all, Carter has undergone five surgeries and has spent only two weeks of his life outside a hospital. On Thursday...

Docs deliver baby developed in intestine

Chennai :: India | about 1 month ago

When doctors at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital wheeled in 30-year-old Meena for a caesarean, they thought it would be just another 15-minute procedure. But the team walked out of the operation theatre only three hours later, to announce the birth...

Neighbors support ban on partial birth abortions

Tamuning :: Guam | about 1 month ago

Dozens of island residents testified in support of a measure that would ban partial birth abortions on Guam. One such person, Mary Lou Garcia Pereda, said, "As a Catholic I oppose the intrinsic evil of abortion, particularly the partial birth abortion,...

Sextuplets born to NY couple

New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago

A Queens couple spent seven years raising their only child, a son -- until New York's second-ever sextuplets arrived. The four boys and two girls were born earlier this month to 31-year-old Digna Carpio (CAR'-peeoh) and her thirty-six-year-old husband...

Heart attack? Skip the drive - call 911

Hamilton :: Canada | about 1 month ago

Sheryl Ubelacker The Canadian Press Doctors have some simple advice for anyone with symptoms of a heart attack who needs to get to the hospital emergency room: leave the car in the garage and call 911. Each year, thousands of Canadians experience the...

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