Accident scenes

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A nine-month study at a teaching hospital in Chicago, IL, revealed the medical staff made mistakes in the treatment of 480 of 1,047 patients. The error rate of approximately 45% greatly exceeded the rate of about 4% reported in a 1984 Harvard University study of 30,000 patients at New York hospitals. At the Chicago hospital, the main problem is how separate departments interact, says Lori Andrews, the lead researcher and a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor.

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The redistricting of Columbia

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Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. is restructuring its business in an effort to finance needed capital expenditures. Columbia/HCA Chmn Thomas Frist, Jr, is focusing on facilities in the strongest markets among its 232 hospitals for reorganization and capital expenditures. Alaska Regional in Anchorage is among the hospitals receiving needed funds to update interior design and to add a new MRI and other laboratory equipment.

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Show us the money; state officials want to know how foundations created by hospital sales lan to spend their riches

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Foundations that are created by the sale of not-for-profit hospitals must provide the highest amount of health benefits for those individuals that need the most help. Federal laws require the funds from these sales to be used for charity while most state laws require the funds from these sales remain allied with the nonprofit hospital's original mission statement.

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