Children's Hospitals Offer Few Healthy Food Options, Study Finds
December 4, 2011 | Story
RWJF Clinical Scholar finds that food venues at California's children's hospitals have "considerable room for improvement."
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Laurie Cammisa, Children's Hospital Boston: "We See Ourselves as Agents For Social Change"
February 28, 2012 | New Public Health Post
To help public health officials and policy-makers better understand the opportunity around the community benefit requirements for nonprofit hospitals, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the The Hilltop Institute at UMBC – a research center th ...
Acid-Suppressive Medication Use and the Risk for Nosocomial Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
June 13, 2011 | Journal Article
Incidence of GI bleeding in hospitalized non-ICU patients is rare preventive medication is not recommended.
Policy Options to Improve Discharge Planning and Reduce Rehospitalization
January 19, 2011 | Commentary
Short hospital stays, rehospitalizations and transitions among health care settings have become increasingly common. Financial policy changes should be implemented to incentivize longer hospital stays and better-coordinated post-discharge care.
Avoid the Emergency Room this Holiday Season
December 23, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The holiday message from NewPublicHealth is: stay safe. A recent report from the University of California at San Francisco finds that emergencies spike during the holidays for a number of reason, including overindulgence and delayed care. Heart-rela ...
How Much Do Hospitals Cost Shift?
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the theoretical and empirical literature on cost shifting since 1996, synthesizes the predominant findings, suggests their implications for the future of health care costs, and puts them in the current policy context.
Does Pay-for-Performance Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?
September 1, 2010 | Commentary
Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.
The Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospitals that Serve Poor Patients
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.
Instructions for Inserting Your Logo Into the Heart Failure Calendar PDF Files
January 1, 2011 | Toolkit
Moving between the hospital and ambulatory care settings, minority patients were more likely to experience serious lapses in their path to recovery.
General Hospitals, Specialty Hospitals and Financially Vulnerable Patients
April 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This study examines the impact of specialty hospitals--cardiac, surgical and orthopedic--on the ability of general and safety-net hospitals to care for financially vulnerable patients in Indianapolis, Little Rock and Phoenix.