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At a time when emergency department visits are going through the roof, the number of emergency departments has declined because hospitals have found it more economically attractive to close the emergency department than keep it open and lose money.

As more hospitals and health systems begin to witness the safety and security healthcare IT affords, Somerset increasingly is viewed as a national leader for its bold use of technology. Through innovation and commitment, the clinicians at Somerset are transforming the healthcare process.

Allowing both hospitals to go forward without litigation is in the best interest of the community.

About 25% of hospitals are in the red.

It's been catastrophic. The nurses are the ones to hold the situation together at hospitals and they are all leaving.

It is routine in hospitals and we observed no complications. But it is clear that the development is not a good sign for the health of the prime minister.

It is unfortunate that this second jury, like the first, was unable to reach a verdict in this case after a seven-month trial and more than 60 days of deliberations over the past four and a half months. Tenet continues to believe that physician relocation agreements such as those entered into by Alvarado are a common practice used by many hospitals to bring needed health care resources to their communities. This case has amply demonstrated that the law surrounding physician relocation agreements is complicated and subject to differing interpretations.

It might give hospitals some more power to push back on prices.

It's a program that uses magic as a form of therapy for people with disabilities, where magic is taught to patients in hospitals to help them regain their dexterity and their coordination by learning sleight of hand, in addition to boosting the patient's self-esteem by giving them a skill that an able-bodied person doesn't even have.

It's a huge problem. Doors have been opening (to medical staff) to have them come to other states. When hospitals think about reopening, where will they get the staff?

It's not really up to the hospitals to decide what the health care delivery system should be.

It's the biggest single project hospitals have ever undertaken.

It's almost like a green light for all other area hospitals to send patients to St. Mary's,

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

It's been a trend probably for the last four or five years. Hospitals are continuing to see an increase in obese patients, and it affects every department. You have to think of the patient from head to toe, everything they do in the hospital until they walk out the door or they die.

It's becoming more difficult to run these acute-care hospitals in a host hospital.

It's great to participate in these special days and to see how the money we generate benefits people in the communities in which we play. I've been to some hospitals before, but this is the first time I've visited a school and it's a lot of fun. I have a three-year old and a five-year old at home, so this type of thing really hits home for me. It's just great to be involved.

The bite got bigger on a smaller apple, and if you look at hospitals in other counties you'll see that privatization is the way they are being run,

The attorney general's perspective is that she would like to have a clear and fair set of standards that hospitals should meet in exchange for the very lucrative privilege of tax-exempt status. I can assure you that for many hospitals, that's worth millions in any given year.

It's certainly fair to say that medicine is practiced differently around the world and we try to work as much as possible closely with the local hospitals and clinics. And in many places, we use the local health care facilities if we think they are adequate to use.

It'll be one of the top priorities. Communities only get to build new hospitals once every 50 years, maybe. It's critical that we're able to look into the future and anticipate our needs.

None of the hospitals have power or water. The area has no power or water. Everything has to be trucked in.

The VA right now has ten 250 bed hospitals part of the national response and the VA is providing a third of the medical support,

The value of this data for the consumer is limited. The methods of data collection and analysis are complex. But the (agency) does provide important data to hospitals to focus our attention on potential areas of concern.

They basically only have enough inspectors to inspect hospitals and inspect new construction and that's it. They can barely keep up with the new construction demand.

There was a rumor that I was dead. I happened to be off work that day and I had a beeper and the batteries had died, so I was just shopping and looking round book stores. People were frantically trying to get in touch with me and people were calling hospitals and the news people were calling my agent trying to see if it was true.

Every week, more than a thousand patients are killed in American hospitals as a result of negligence.

The Ministerial Alliance picked up that concept ... and brought it to the attention of both hospitals and physicians who were interested.

The institutional codes for designing hospitals are very stringent and complicated compared to a regular retail department store.

I'm disturbed by the effort to de-emphasize tourism and recreation. You talk about economic diversity; well if there weren't so many people having fun on the ski hill, our hospitals wouldn't be so busy.

I have serious concerns about the number of VA hospitals that provide mental health care services that are being considered for closure.

I know she needs a lot of special care right now and a lot of hospitals are not equipped to do that,

If Northwest Iowa hospitals get bogged down with a number of flu cases, maybe central Iowa has more facilities they could offer so we could spread people out to get the treatment they need.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Individuals who cannot afford health insurance coverage can still have access to appropriate care provided by free health clinics. We are pleased to be able to fund better access to healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured and to help limit one of the cost drivers of premiums for the insured -- that is the use of hospitals for non-emergency care by the uninsured.

If the profit-making practice of the public hospitals is not changed, it will be nearly impossible to improve health care.

In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

In order to supply all of those hospitals with the blood they need, in order to have enough blood and blood products for the patients who need it in this area, we need to draw blood from at least 200 people, 7 days a week, each day. That actually adds up to about 6,000 units a month of blood.

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

In the past, people spent more time researching new cars than they did researching hospitals and doctors.

In the ASP model as well, hospitals enjoy the full functionality of Visage PACS. Data access is on demand via a browser and is in real time. In this way, doctors can store their image data in a distributed or central approach without losing time, and use it for interpretation.

Clearly, the hospitals have to do a much better job of delivering the drug.

Becky has a wonderful talent for communication and an outstanding gift for connecting people and organizations for their mutual benefit. Becky has a unique ability to see a vision through from imagination to accomplishment. She was the right person for this public role as our West Volusia hospitals were developing relationships with our communities.

Hospitals already are stretching scarce resources to respond to the daily challenges of providing care to all who come through our doors. Cuts to these resources will have a negative impact on the availability of care for the patients and communities we serve.

Hospitals all across America are struggling to fund a lot of things because of cutbacks on reimbursements. For a lot of reasons, hospitals are trying to be more creative about generating new revenue streams.

Hospital interest in combating and fighting infection has been going on for decades. It is a critical issue that hospitals devote enormous resources to, and long before the Partnership for Patient Care was created.

Hospitals will work to be sure that they're within the standard of care.

Hospitals will be fighting and clawing for the next several years just to stay even. There's a lot of pressure on hospital expenses - nursing salaries, the need to invest in technology, things we weren't even doing before.

Hospitals that get sold are those that can't cover debt or get their debt-to-asset ratios way out of whack, and this hospital is likely to be in that situation for quite some time.

Hospitals should be setting examples for the community, setting the pace, even creating the market for healthier products. These are health institutions. They should be promoting health.

Hospitals need to break out logistics costs from the total cost of goods. Rather than have product just show up at the door, they can manage inbound freight, anticipate deliveries, and have visibility into what's coming.

Hospitals need that in emergency situations. You can give type O blood to anyone without knowing their blood type, so it's extremely important to have.

Hospitals like Brigham and Women's Hospital are an inspiration to the field. They reaffirm that quality and patient safety are cornerstones of hospitals' commitment and mission. They are testing new strategies for providing safer, more effective patient-centered care, and are sharing what they learn with the field to help all hospitals fulfill the promise of high-quality, safe care for their communities.

Hospitals in particular and healthcare in general are interesting. It's key parts of the community and a fascinating business with interesting people.

Hospitals have made enormous efforts in trying to more efficiently and effectively deliver care, and hospitals have also made painful decisions. Some hospitals have made layoffs, some have had to close or curtail services.

Hospitals have become very aggressive about collecting money.

Hospitals can spend millions of dollars a year manually collecting quality data and then still be unable to use it to change the way they do things. Our tools really can help drive required behavioral change by not only making guidelines and policies accessible, but also providing transparent data and ongoing feedback to understand behaviors, obstacles and outcomes. This ultimately helps the clinician, because the right thing to do becomes the easiest thing to do.

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

Hospitals are rethinking how to handle a different kind of patient. Basically, the baby boomers are coming. We are the best-educated generation, and we are not a group familiar with delayed gratification.

Hospitals are making preparations to take in more of the injured.

Hospitals are looking for the things they can do to make the hospital experience feel a little more normal to people, a little less stressful.

Hospitals are in the business of providing a certain level of acute care.

Hospitals are institutions, bureaucracies that don't change quickly, though some of them are capable of doing that.

Hospitals are huge moneymakers. Their executives enjoy big bonuses.

Hospitals are functioning and are well-supplied. Iraq has a new currency, the first battalion of a new army, representative local governments, and a governing council with an aggressive timetable for national sovereignty.

Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism.

Hospitals are busy places, and doctors are fallible, and things will fall through the cracks, and they'll fall through the cracks a lot.

Hospitals and physicians historically have not done a good job with customer service. But there's a sense at some of those hospitals that we need to change because our competition is changing.

I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

By and large what we see is that hospitals need good, flexible space that can accommodate any number of services.

By no means can the hospitals work the way they used to work. If someone believes that they can, I think he or she is very wrong,

Good reporting is one of our goals. The other is for hospitals to stop infecting people. The first line of defense is wash those hands, clean the stethoscope, clean the food tray, where you know bacteria are living.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

If it improves access, efficiency and safety -- in essence improves the value of the product delivered -- I have no problem saying we ought to expand this program to hospitals and other physicians.

If hospitals and doctors believe we are going to release all the information we get, they might be hesitant to provide the information and wouldn't report to us.

If I'm a doctor in an emergency room, I can log onto the system and see if either of the other two hospitals in the area knows anything about the patient. If they do, I can enter their system to check the lab reports.

Health economists agree that not-for-profit hospitals need to be turning between a 4 to 6 percent margin in order to remain competitive and viable. We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again a confluence of pressures ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Where am I? (Nick) Hospital. (Kyrian) Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald’s. (Nick)

The initiative's goal was not to drive business to one wholesaler, but to reduce pharmaceutical costs for participating hospitals. This regional effort was driven by our membership and really showed how hospitals can work together to affect change.

The typical hospital is information poor. It doesn't have accurate data on what it buys. In fact, hospitals lag behind most industries in managing procurement.

These hospitals are the smallest of the small, and it doesn't take much of a swing in the economy to have an impact.

This health crisis has repercussions that are reverberating far beyond the sick rooms and the hospitals where its victims lie dying. It threatens to destabilize entire societies.

A long strike would absolutely have created bigger challenges for hospitals to provide adequate patient care.

All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.

All hospitals and all pharmacies licensed in the state of Connecticut to prescribe drugs, be prepared to prescribe and treat women in cases of rape. That means making emergency contraception available to all women at all licensed facilities in the state of Connecticut.

The hospitals that are operating are filled to the brim. The emergency departments are clogged up with long queues that see a growing patient population.

The hospitals often argue, 'Just let us do it. We'll do it voluntarily.' Well, they've had decades to do it.

The hospitals are running out of water, and the sewers aren't working. It's a horrible situation.

(The health care industry) is terribly fragmented. That means there are a lot of little tiny pieces. Our surveys indicate there are a number of doctors' offices and smaller hospitals that are probably not going to be ready if they don't put on a real push between now and the end of the year.

AHEC does provide some direct patient care ... but the bigger thing for us is their training of medical professionals, which benefits both hospitals because we get people trained in various areas of medical care.

You've got to look at very long-term impacts, with people out of their homes for months or years. The magnitude of the population displaced is very troubling. You look at 'OK, how many of our hospitals might be functioning?' There are pockets of New Orleans that still don't have power. Where do you move these people if you have to move them? We don't have answers right now.

And it's getting more difficult and more expensive to recruit nurses from out of state because there is a significant shortage everywhere. Why not educate our own people for these jobs instead of trying to find them out of state? It would be mutually beneficial for hospitals and students.

All the way from major national restaurants and food retailers to hospitals and hotels, we now see organizations all over America involved,

The elderly were much more likely to be in hospitals and nursing homes as well as possibly homebound and not able to access transportation in order to evacuate from the storm.

The challenges are that with a devastating event such as this many of our hospitals are down in New Orleans ... and then there have to be doctors there to care for the patients.

The first construction costs (for all-private) hospitals can be higher.