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Updated Website Highlights Care in the Emergency Department and Other InformationWASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) today applauded the public availability of new information on hospital quality of care at the Hospital Compare website (www.HospitalCompare.hhs.gov). The HQA is a broad working group of hospitals, consumer representatives, physician and nursing organizations, employers [...]

Patient safety in the hospital begins with the young doctors during their residency training. With this in mind, SAVE THE PATIENT is hosting a community talk show to highlight the importance of sound resident training practices in our Chicago-land hospitals (see also SAVE The Patient).On Monday, June 21 at 6:00pm, Chicago Access Network (CAN-TV), Channel [...]

CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Patient safety in the hospital begins with the young doctors during their residency training. With this in mind, SAVE THE PATIENT is hosting a community talk show to highlight the importance of sound resident training practices in our Chicago-land hospitals.On Monday, June 21 at 6:00pm, Chicago Access Network (CAN-TV), Channel [...]

To: HEALTH, NATIONAL, AND RADIO-TELEVISION EDITORSContact: Lenore Janecek of SAVE THE PATIENT, +1-312-399-3532, savethepatient@aol.comCHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Patient safety in thehospital begins with the young doctors during their residencytraining. With this in mind, SAVE THE PATIENT is hosting a communitytalk show to highlight the importance of sound resident trainingpractices in our Chicago-land hospitals.On [...]

CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Patient safety in the hospital begins with the young doctors during their residency training. With this in mind, SAVE THE PATIENT is hosting a community talk show to highlight the importance of sound resident training practices in our Chicago-land hospitals.On Monday, June 21 at 6:00pm, Chicago Access Network (CAN-TV), Channel [...]

Celebrating its fourth year on CAN-TV, SAVE THE PATIENT is hosting a special community show to reinforce the importance of positive, proactive and "preventative" interactions between patients and members of the health care teamranging from physicians to surgeons, nurses to advocates, pharmacists to educators and dentists to hospitals (see also SAVE The Patient).On Monday, May [...]

May 20TERRE HAUTE Health care decisions of the past are what haunt the present and, if left unchanged, threaten to collapse the entire system, a local physician said Thursday.Dr. Kayur Patel, chief medical officer at Terre Haute Regional Hospital, addressed residents at the Wyndmoor Senior Living facility as part of a program sponsored by [...]

CHICAGO, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Celebrating its fourth year on CAN-TV, SAVE THE PATIENT is hosting a special community show to reinforce the importance of positive, proactive and "preventative" interactions between patients and members of the health care teamranging from physicians to surgeons, nurses to advocates, pharmacists to educators and dentists to hospitals.On Monday, May [...]

Apr. 23President Obama last week mandated that hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid dollars must honor patients’ wishes about who may visit them and who can make health care decisions for them when they cannot.People just naturally expect that they would have the final word on who will comfort and support them when they are [...]

Apr. 17Virginia hospitals since 2007 have been required to allow adult patients to decide who visits them as long as it conforms to general rules covering such things as visiting hours and number of visitors.President Barack Obama in a memorandum Thursday told his health secretary to create new regulations requiring hospitals to allow patients to [...]