http://www.bling.org health care headlines Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/eliminating-waste-in-health-care.html http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/eliminating-waste-in-health-care.html#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:01:19 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/eliminating-waste-in-health-care.html ...quarter from our nation's hospitals that could be re-purposed, re-sterilized, re-packaged to give us HUGE cost savings to our health care system? Could expiration dates be extended safely without compromising quality? No. One. Knows. Why? Because there's no...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2012-01-10/eliminating-waste-in-health-care.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-12-25/solutions-to-canadian-health-care-problems-to-be-left-to-provinces-harper.html http://www.bling.org/2011-12-25/solutions-to-canadian-health-care-problems-to-be-left-to-provinces-harper.html#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:01:08 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-12-25/solutions-to-canadian-health-care-problems-to-be-left-to-provinces-harper.html ...and do what we can do to help,” Harper said in the interview. “But I think we all understand that . . . the rate of growth of the health care system can’t be sustained and that somehow that’s going to have to be tackled, so that we, we keep a system that Canadians...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-12-25/solutions-to-canadian-health-care-problems-to-be-left-to-provinces-harper.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-12-24/health-care-reform-is-working-in-oregon.html http://www.bling.org/2011-12-24/health-care-reform-is-working-in-oregon.html#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:01:18 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-12-24/health-care-reform-is-working-in-oregon.html ...happening — or not happening — on the national stage, Oregonians are ready to transform our health care system to deliver better health and better care at lower costs for all. Right now we pay into a broken system where care is fragmented and wasteful. We...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-12-24/health-care-reform-is-working-in-oregon.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/falls-medication-errors-lead-mishaps-in-quebec%c2%80%c2%99s-health-care-system.html http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/falls-medication-errors-lead-mishaps-in-quebec%c2%80%c2%99s-health-care-system.html#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:01:14 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/falls-medication-errors-lead-mishaps-in-quebec%c2%80%c2%99s-health-care-system.html ...Kenyon Wallace Toronto Star Medication errors and patient falls account for more than two-thirds of medical mishaps in the Quebec health-care system, according to newly released provincial data. In making the figures public, Quebec has become the first province...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/falls-medication-errors-lead-mishaps-in-quebec%c2%80%c2%99s-health-care-system.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/central-la-state-hospitals-future-uncertain-as-private-company-to-run-mental-health-program.html http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/central-la-state-hospitals-future-uncertain-as-private-company-to-run-mental-health-program.html#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:01:29 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/central-la-state-hospitals-future-uncertain-as-private-company-to-run-mental-health-program.html ...Alexandria on Tuesday at a forum discussing the coming changes in Louisiana-provided, mental-health care as Louisiana moves to a health-care system that relies heavily on the private sector. Also at the forum were DHH Deputy Secretary Kathy Kliebert and state...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-12-07/central-la-state-hospitals-future-uncertain-as-private-company-to-run-mental-health-program.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-11-30/health-care-changes-signal-much-needed-shift.html http://www.bling.org/2011-11-30/health-care-changes-signal-much-needed-shift.html#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:01:36 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-11-30/health-care-changes-signal-much-needed-shift.html ...and the decades-long clinical experience of its creator, Minnesota-based HealthPartners . HealthPartners is a leading integrated health care system , which means that the role of both payer and provider are combined. These factors may have increased CMS’ comfort-level,...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-11-30/health-care-changes-signal-much-needed-shift.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-11-25/a-disconnect-between-medical-resources-and-health-care-delivery.html http://www.bling.org/2011-11-25/a-disconnect-between-medical-resources-and-health-care-delivery.html#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:01:11 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-11-25/a-disconnect-between-medical-resources-and-health-care-delivery.html ...medical practice and proven cost effectiveness.  What if we put our brains, energies and passion behind designing the smartest health care system possible? That was the question that kept poking through my train of thought as I read a study that appeared in...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-11-25/a-disconnect-between-medical-resources-and-health-care-delivery.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-11-18/confronting-chronic-neglect-the-education-and-training-of-health-professionals-on-family-violence-2.html http://www.bling.org/2011-11-18/confronting-chronic-neglect-the-education-and-training-of-health-professionals-on-family-violence-2.html#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:01:14 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-11-18/confronting-chronic-neglect-the-education-and-training-of-health-professionals-on-family-violence-2.html ...research on the impact of family violence on the health care system and evaluate and test training and education programs for health professionals.  The centers should be established by the Department of Health and Human Services and modeled after similar...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-11-18/confronting-chronic-neglect-the-education-and-training-of-health-professionals-on-family-violence-2.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-11-12/another-view-if-you-dont-like-health-reform-law-dont-use-what-it-offers.html http://www.bling.org/2011-11-12/another-view-if-you-dont-like-health-reform-law-dont-use-what-it-offers.html#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:01:07 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-11-12/another-view-if-you-dont-like-health-reform-law-dont-use-what-it-offers.html ...have gone mute in defending the law. Some critics of the law characterize it as socialism. Of course a truly "socialized" health care system would have hospitals owned by the government and health care workers employed by the government. The law relies heavily...

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]]> http://www.bling.org/2011-11-12/another-view-if-you-dont-like-health-reform-law-dont-use-what-it-offers.html/feed 0 http://www.bling.org/2011-10-27/bon-secours-signs-two-leases-and-opens-a-new-health-care-facility-on-nov-1.html http://www.bling.org/2011-10-27/bon-secours-signs-two-leases-and-opens-a-new-health-care-facility-on-nov-1.html#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:01:06 +0000 Matthew http://www.bling.org/2011-10-27/bon-secours-signs-two-leases-and-opens-a-new-health-care-facility-on-nov-1.html ...Secours has leased 32,717 square feet. C. B. Richard Ellis handled the leasing transaction. The most dramatic example of the health care system’s recent expansion will open Nov. 1.  Bon Secours St. Francis Watkins Centre, located in northwestern Chesterfield...

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