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Hospital bills to Medicare all over the map
For a typical knee or hip replacement, Emory University Hospital billed Medicare $28,351 in 2011 — a bargain compared to the average bill for the same procedure from Atlanta Medical Center: $91,134. In Medicare’s view, both bills were too high: it ignored the charges and paid both hospitals an average ...
456 Piedmont patients warned about improperly cleaned devices
An outpatient surgery center owned by Piedmont Healthcare failed to properly clean equipment used in hundreds of colonoscopies, placing patients at risk of serious infection. The hospital network said the breach involved 456 patients but said the risk of infection was less than one in a million. It mailed letters ...
Bad bugs lurk at the hospital
Acinetobacter Commonly found in soil and water. Outbreaks typically occur in intensive care units. These infections rarely occur outside of healthcare settings. At risk: Hospitalized patients, especially very ill patients on a ventilator, those with a prolonged hospital stay, those who have open wounds, or any person with invasive devices ...
Hospital safety: your responsibility or theirs?
Airline passengers don’t review the preflight checklist with the pilot, and restaurant customers aren’t expected to check the kitchen and the staff for cleanliness. But many health care experts say it’s wise for hospital patients and their families to ask doctors and nurses to wash their hands, remove unnecessary catheters ...
Georgia trails neighboring states on infection control
Health inspectors across Georgia swoop into every restaurant kitchen to demand cleanliness. They dip test strips into public pools to make sure the water is safe and monitor septic tanks for contamination of the environment. But one gigantic threat to public health — hospital-acquired infections — has escaped vigorous scrutiny ...
Bad bugs lurk at the hospital
Acinetobacter Commonly found in soil and water. Outbreaks typically occur in intensive care units. These infections rarely occur outside of healthcare settings. At risk: Hospitalized patients, especially very ill patients on a ventilator, those with a prolonged hospital stay, those who have open wounds, or any person with invasive devices ...
Georgia ranks near bottom on hospital infections
Within days of her husband’s hospitalization, Tammy Gustafsson noticed the signs popping up on other patients’ doors at DeKalb Medical Center. Stop. Contact Precautions. This means the patient within has acquired a dangerous infection. As her husband battled acute pancreatitis, Gustafsson worried that he was at risk of infection, too. ...
‘It is almost magic in their eyes’
Dr. Peter Pronovost, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has become well-known at hospitals nationwide for developing a proven method of reducing deadly infections associated with central lines. His checklist and changes to hospital culture led to astounding decreases ...
Armed robbery in Georgia: Unequal justice
The law is ironclad and unambiguous: commit an armed robbery in Georgia and you’re going to prison for 10 years minimum. Except, that is, if you can make a deal. In 2009, Sabre Ameen walked into a retail shop, pulled a gun on the clerk and ordered her to hand ...
A question of justice: A closer look at Georgia's sentencing laws
Sarah Page Dukes: beloved daughter, musician, STAR student, heroin addict, armed robber, state prisoner, recovering addict, beloved teacher. Page’s story of promise, ruin and redemption is also the story of the state’s practice of locking up certain offenders for long terms, without parole. Georgia’s 20-year-old “Seven Deadly Sins” law set ...
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