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Hospital Readmission Rates Linked to Availability of Care, Socioeconomics

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Color-coding, rearranging food products improves healthy choices in hospital cafeteria

Click Here to Read More … A simple program involving color-coded food labeling and adjusting the way food items are positioned in display cases was successful in encouraging more healthful food choices in a large hospital cafeteria.
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Hospital residents report patient-handoff problems common, can lead to patient harm

Click Here to Read More … A significant percentage of resident physicians report that patient handoffs – transfer of responsibility for a hospitalized patient from one resident to another – contributed to incidents in which harm was done to patients.
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Massachusetts General Hospital: 2011 Winner of American Association of Medical Colleges’Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service

Click Here to Read More … The Association of American Medical Colleges, representing medical schools and teaching hospitals and health systems, has awarded MGH its 2011 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service.
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Mass. General Hospital to Deploy Staff to Haiti in Response to Rising Cholera Cases

Click Here to Read More … On Sunday, July 17, The MGH Center for Global Health will deploy 6 clinicians to Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti, in response to resurging cases of cholera.
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Red Sox Foundation and Mass General Hospital Home Base Program wins national grant from McCormick Foundation and Major League Baseball to expand services

Click Here to Read More … A $ 1.1 million competitive national grant from the McCormick Foundation and Major League Baseball will be used to support the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program to expand access to care for veterans with traumatic brain injury or combat stress and support services for their families.
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Hospital pilot sites demonstrate surgical safety checklist drops deaths and complications by more than one third

Click Here to Read More … A group of hospitals in eight cities around the globe has successfully demonstrated that the use of a simple surgical checklist during major operations can lower the incidence of deaths and complications by more than one third.
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Mass. General Hospital, Iacocca Foundation announce promising results of Phase I diabetes trial

Click Here to Read More … Promising results of a Phase I clinical trial of the generic drug BCG to treat advanced type I diabetes are being announced today at the American Diabetes Association scientific sessions. An MGH research team is describing the apparent reproduction in human patients of a mechanism that reversed type 1 diabetes in a mouse model.
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A Rhode Island Hospital Study Explains Differences Between Male And Female Victims In Community Violence Assaults

Click Here to Read More … A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that a large proportion of victims of community violence treated in its emergency department are female. Injured adolescent females are more likely than males to be injured by a relative or intimate partner, and are more likely to be injured by a single assailant…
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Massachusetts General Hospital is first in the nation to do mammography screening using 3D breast tomosynthesis

Click Here to Read More … The Breast Imaging Program at Massachusetts General Hospital today welcomes its first patient to undergo three-dimensional breast tomosynthesis screening. Also known as 3D mammography, this technology promises to improve cancer detection and reduce false positives.
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