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  • Showing doctors the way to lower cost, improved care

    May 06, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The United States health care system is expensive and enables doctors to prescribe costly brand name medication instead of generic versions. Sutter Health assembles its doctors a few times a week to review with electronic records the prescribing of brand name drugs and the necessity of procedures as an effort to reduce health care costs and to reduce unnecessary tests. In two years, the initiative has saved $30 million.

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  • Health & Medicine An American surgeon pioneers surgery for kids in Uganda that helps kids in the US

    April 27, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The typical surgery for hydrocephalus, a brain swelling disease, often leads to infection. Medical constraints in Uganda inspired a neurosurgeon to create a safer and more effective surgery which is now used in Uganda and the U.S.

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  • Mozambique's life-saving surgeons aren't doctors at all

    April 27, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Mozambique, Chokwe

    Mozambique has a shortage of practicing surgeons, so medical technicians are being trained to fill their roles in various situations, especially in rural locations. Although there are challenges to using this tactic, the technicians-turned-surgeons have similar complication rates as those who are practicing surgeons.

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  • In Detroit Hospital, black babies are latching on

    April 20, 2015 |

    Women's eNews |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Many African American women are reluctant to breastfeed their babies. The Mother Nuture Project at Detroit’s St. John Hospital and Medical Center offers peer counseling to educate women (mostly African American) and encourage breastfeeding. Mother Nurture’s program has helped boost breastfeeding rates from 46 percent to 64 percent.

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  • New organ donation system all about heart

    March 17, 2015 |

    Shanghai Daily |

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    Response Location: China

    Organ donation in China has become increasingly transparent in recent years, leading to an increase in the number of people agreeing to donate. Now that there is a transparent, national donation system this trend is expected to continue.

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  • Inviting Patients To Help Decide Their Own Treatment

    March 16, 2015 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Patient Support Corps at UC San Francisco Medical Center pairs interns with patients to provide support during visits. The program, which now acts as a model for other hospitals, encourages patients to speak up and offers them the information needed to make decisions about their care, rather than having the doctors make the decision for them.

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  • For V.A. Hospitals (and Patients), a Major Health Victory

    January 30, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Although patients go to hospitals to receive medical care, many Americans will acquire infections that did not already have them. The United States as a whole has made modest progress at reducing the rates of hospital-acquired infections. Spearheading the efforts, the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers have devised anti-MRSA strategies to keep patients safe.

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  • One Hospital Tells Bronx's Sick: You Call Us, We'll Call You

    June 03, 2014 |

    WNYC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Hospitals in New York improve healthcare quality and reduce medical costs by staying in frequent contact with patients requiring frequent or long-term care. Montefiore's Accountable Care Organization pulls in care providers from across the medical and social spectrum to improve patient health while curbing expenses.

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  • In Delivery Rooms, Reducing Births of Convenience

    May 07, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The rate of Cesarean sections is on the rise in the United States, despite the higher risks of hysterectomy, hemorrhage, and infection, as well as the elevated expense. San Francisco General’s maternity ward, however, stands as an outlier by following evidence-based medicine that suggests decreasing C-sections and has also shifted from a pay-per-service incentive for the doctors to a salary or shift position.

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  • Reducing Early Elective Deliveries

    March 12, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    Reducing cases of early birth deliveries shouldn’t have been hard — at least, they should have been easier to change than many other harmful practices. But it was - until hospitals started introducing models for change, creating accountability and changing payment systems. This article looks at a range of solutions happening across the country that serve as a model for other healthcare providers.

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