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April 01, 2012
Appleton's St. Elizabeth Hospital opens emergency department
St. Elizabeth Hospital of Appleton, Wis., has opened a new emergency department and surgery procedure area.
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April 01, 2012
Eldercare facilities can benefit from going green, Covenant shows
Although eldercare facilities don't have the waste-generating, energy-intensive operating rooms, laboratories or the large pharmacies that their acute care hospital cousins do, they still have plenty of opportunities to save energy and reduce their trash stream.
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April 01, 2012
Notre Dame sisters help entry-level employees, immigrants climb career ladder
At 42, Joana Kusi says she is thrilled to finally be a student. At 74, Sr. Roberta Giampaoli, SND, is equally happy to be her tutor.
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April 01, 2012
Saint Agnes reinforces hand washing with sport scores, on-point messaging
It's a sure bet that messages about public health concerns have gone mainstream when Hollywood directors like Woody Allen include them as laugh lines in romantic comedies.
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April 01, 2012
Resurrection gets a tight grip on readmission rates
At first blush, one might think Mary Schlitter's job title could be "professional nag." But her relentless pursuit of patients recently discharged from Our Lady of Resurrection Medical Center is designed to keep them healthy and out of the hospital.
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April 01, 2012
Mercy pipes specialty medicine to remote sites
David Richardson woke up early as usual, between 4 and 5 a.m. He didn't feel well. He nibbled at the breakfast his wife, Karin, made later that Sunday morning, then told her he was going to lie down.
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March 15, 2012
Keeping Up
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March 15, 2012
New CHI model helps patients follow care prescriptions
The trend line is clear: To be successful under reform, health care providers will need to coordinate patients' care in a way that improves the patients' outcomes while also reducing the chances that they'll relapse and need avoidable, expensive follow-up hospitalization.
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March 15, 2012
Staff-created book helps prepare kids for assault exams
It can be traumatizing for a victim of an assault to undergo a forensic sexual assault exam, particularly if that victim is a child.
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March 15, 2012
Mother Marianne Cope's canonization ceremony set for October
Pope Benedict XVI will canonize Mother Marianne Cope on Oct. 21.