Archive: September 2014

Heart attack patients who fail to receive any of nine crucial types of care following discharge from the hospital are 46 percent more likely to die within a month and 74 percent more likely to die within a year, according…

Many military hospitals – such as Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma – are small and underused, leading to high rates of inpatient medical errors, according to a recent report by the New York Times. There are 54 military hospitals…

Beginning next year, participating children’s surgical centers will be assigned one of three levels of care based on the system used for designating trauma centers, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Millions of children undergo surgery…