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A hospital's location and whether it is for-profit make a big difference in the share of its doctors taking industry payments like meals, travel and speaking fees. Check out the ProPublica analysis.
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Hospital deaths are more expensive and intrusive than deaths at home, in hospice care or even in nursing homes. Financial incentives favor more care, even when it's not always wanted.
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The pokes and prods inflicted on children in the hospital at all hours can make it hard for them to get a decent night's sleep. Children's hospitals are now rethinking how they work at night.
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Many Floridians and other Americans turn to the ER for problems that aren't emergencies, a poll suggests, even though the experience can be unpleasant. Some ERs are striving to change their image.
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Facilities for delivering babies are expensive to run and hard to staff. But when small rural hospitals close their birthing units, pregnant women must travel much farther for care.
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About 1,100 hospital workers went on a 24-hour strike Tuesday at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and Saint Clare Hospital in Lakewood, saying…
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Washington is one of the least religious states in the country, but when it comes to health care, it has some of the fastest growing…
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If you’ve been to an emergency room in Washington in recent months, you're probably in a new database.The goal is to treat more injuries and illnesses…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-956890.mp3Thousands of people are still dying unnecessarily in America's hospitals,…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-952107.mp3New emergency rooms keep opening around western Washington. It's part of a…