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How Hospitals Are Approaching Content Marketing
Content - Nearly two-thirds (73%) of hospitals in the United States are already engaging in content marketing, and an additional 19% plan to start this year, according to recent research from True ...
Hospital Errors and How to Protect Yourself
Americans are dying in hospitals from preventable medical mistakes. But, patients can minimize their risks by keeping a close eye on their care.
Patients much likelier to choose hospital that employs their doctor
When patients have to go to the hospital, they're likely to choose a facility that employs their doctor, a new study suggests. The study, which finds that patients of independent doctors often choose low-cost and high-quality hospitals, hints that not all organizations are successfully integrating care.
What Yelp can tell you about a hospital that official ratings can’t
If you've ever taken the time to give Yelp your two cents about a hospital, you'll be happy to know someone's listening and that they've deemed the information not only useful -- but unique.
7 tips for improving patient safety in hospitals
An AHRQ report shows hospital efforts to improve patient safety have resulted in about $19.8 billion in cost savings.
3 Ways Obamacare Is Changing How A Hospital Cares For Patients
For the first time, doctors have a financial incentive to keep patients out of the hospital. That's leading to some interesting changes.
Hospitals provide much more than health care
Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System provide quality medical care to patients.
How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival
In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.
How Hospitals Can Partner with, Engage Patients and Families to Improve Care
Use this comprehensive list of resources to develop and implement your patient engagement strategies.
How to Build a Successful Acute/Post-Acute Care Continuum
Hospitals are forming networks with post-acute care and continuing care partners to ensure quality across the continuum.
Why Children Play With Fire, and How to Stop Them
Preschoolers and kindergartners are most likely to start fires caused by play, and are most likely to die in them, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
How to Prevent Home Fires
You can vastly cut down deadly fire risks by exercising good safety habits and simple prevention steps. This article lists the “Big 7” most common causes of preventable fires and tells you the simple things you can and should do to keep them from starting. Prevention costs little or nothing.
How to Help Prevent House Fires
There are many causes of house fires, including faulty wiring, alternate heat sources, cooking, and more. Learn how to help prevent house fires with Travelers.
What medicine can learn from the fire department about team-based care
Rather than assume that the culture we perpetuate is status quo, let us be open-minded enough to see its flaws and empowered enough to fix it.
How Do I Survive a Forest Fire?
Den Mother can help you keep your cool while the forest burns around you.
When a Hospital Stay Is Not a Stay
Some hospital stays are not admissions but are done to put the patient under observation, which affects Medicare reimbursement and coverage.
What creates a toxic hospital culture?
Hospital culture flows from the personalities of its leaders.
How Technology Can Close the Door on Hospital Readmissions
We’re guessing that you've been to a hospital at one time or another — whether to visit a loved on or get treated themselves. And we’re also guessing that you have no desire to go back to a hospital again.<br>Sadly, hospital readmissions are all too common, so common that hospitals are being penalized
How 3 hospitals use Periscope for patient engagement
Several hospitals are blazing trails with Twitter’s live-streaming platform. Let’s look at how three providers are delivering health and wellness to patients via real-time video.
