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By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 19, 2008
The health and happiness of residents and the quality and stability of staffing are intertwined.
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Nursing Homes: 10 Best States for Nurse Staffing
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 19, 2008
Residents generally do better the more time spent being cared for by registered nurses.
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Nursing Homes: 10 Best States on Key Quality Measures
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Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 19, 2008
Medical care was one of the 10 quality measures used in judging nursing homes.
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Nursing Homes: 10 Worst States on Key Quality Measures
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 19, 2008
Bedsores and loss of residents' ability to get around among the 10 yardsticks applied to nursing homes.
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Nursing Homes: 10 Worst States for Overall Staffing
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 19, 2008
Low nurse turnover and high quality of nursing care are vital to the well being of home residents.
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Nursing Homes: 10 Worst States for Nurse Staffing
By
Avery Comarow
and
Megan Johnson
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Health - December 19, 2008
How many hours a day are home residents under the direct care of a registered nurse?
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Nursing Homes: 10 Worst States Overall
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 18, 2008
A quarter or more of these states' nursing homes rated just 1 star out of 5 on a revised federal site.
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Nursing Homes: How the 50 States Rank
By
Avery Comarow
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Megan Johnson
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Health - December 18, 2008
Delaware came in first under the federal government's new rating system.
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How to Choose a Nursing Home: Count the Stars
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - December 18, 2008
If a five-star home is the best, why would anyone would pick one with a single star?
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Is Simpler Better in Rating a Nursing Home?
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - December 18, 2008
Today, the feds released a version of Nursing Home Compare that helps consumers screen out bad apples.
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A New Tool Appears for Rating Hospitals
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - December 17, 2008
It's great—if you want to compare hospitals in umpteen ways that have limited value.
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Alternative Medicine's Rapid Spread? Nonsense
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - December 12, 2008
The claim: More than a third of Americans use complementary and alternative therapies. Fact? Not really.
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For Better CT Scan Readings, Add Patient’s Photo
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - December 2, 2008
Radiologists came up with more findings when they saw the patients whose scans they were analyzing.
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Is Robotic Surgery Better? Or Just Marketing?
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - November 25, 2008
High technology is pushing healthcare costs out of sight, but testing it means buying it.
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Medical Tourism to India, All Expenses Paid
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - November 21, 2008
A Wisconsin company is the first to offer employees free surgery in another country
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America's Best Leaders: Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
By
Avery Comarow
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Nation & World - November 19, 2008
A leader on HIV/AIDS and a straight talker on key health issues
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America's Best Leaders: Benjamin Carson, Surgeon and Children's Advocate
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Avery Comarow
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Nation & World - November 19, 2008
A talented pediatric neurosurgeon and activist for inner-city kids.
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Are Hospital Ratings a Mess, a Message, or Both?
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - November 18, 2008
The lead author of a study I slammed for concluding that the answer is No. 1 argues his case.
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U.S. News's 'Best Hospitals' Clashes With Other Ratings. Is That Bad?
By
Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - November 14, 2008
Different ways of looking at hospitals yield different results.
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Behind the Health Insurance Plan Rankings
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Avery Comarow
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Health - November 7, 2008
We looked at how well plans prevent and treat illness and satisfy members.
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Health Insurance Plans That Hide Their Data
By
Avery Comarow
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Health - November 7, 2008
More than 100 health plans couldn't be ranked—they refused to release information.
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Even Doctors Misread Health Statistics
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - October 14, 2008
Is your physician's grasp of the risks of a drug or screening test what it should be?
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An Outbreak of Hospital Infection Talk
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - October 7, 2008
How to reduce infection-related deaths is getting a whole lot of attention.
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Now Hospitals Must Pay for Avoidable Complications
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - September 30, 2008
Starting tomorrow, Medicare won't pay for a list of complications that could be avoided.
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Watching the Hospital Hand-Washing Watchers
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Avery Comarow
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Comarow On Quality - September 23, 2008
Remember cloakroom monitors? Now, it's video monitors for scrubbing up.
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