Several articles highlight problems at local hospitals.
Health News Florida: Return Rate High At 5 Big Hospitals Five of Florida’s major public and non-profit hospitals scored so poorly on return rates for Medicare patients that they will get preference this summer in a grant program to fix the problem, government documents show. They are Shands-Jacksonville, Florida Hospital System in Orlando, Miami’s Jackson Health System, Memorial Regional in Hollywood and Orlando Regional. … This means too many of the Medicare patients they discharged were readmitted a few days or weeks later to the same or another hospital (Gentry, 6/17).
The Miami Herald: Solution For Jackson Memorial May Be Found In Tampa A task force of 20 Miami-Dade healthcare leaders has recommended that the financially troubled Jackson convert to a private nonprofit, a path taken by Tampa General and many other public hospitals across the nation over the past 20 years. T
Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83. He became known as Dr. Death. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist who helped dozens of ill people commit suicide, died Friday at age 83 in a Detroit hospital. He launched a nationwide divisive debate over assisted suicide. And Kevorkian had Northwest connection. In 1990 he helped an Oregon woman who had Alzheimer’s committ suicide. Read these stories from The Oregonian:Carroll Rehmke answered the phone Friday at home in Bellevue, Wash., sounding not at all surprised to hear a newspaper reporter’s voice on the other end of the line.”You’re calling about Jack?” asked Rehmke, a retired King County judicial assistant.When Janet Elaine Adkins flipped the switch on the lethal-injection machine that killed her Monday, she ignited a life-and-death debate that rippled out from the rural Michigan campground through the national medical community.In a small conference room at the Vista St.
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