Posted in Health / Medical News, Health Insurance, Healthcare Decisions, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Reform, Hospitals, Patient Empowerment, Surgery • Tags: breast cancer, Health Insurance, medicaid, Medicare, reconstruction
An article in my local newspaper makes me wake up and take notice of a real problem for women who, after breast cancer surgeries, wish to have their breast(s) reconstructed.
Mind you — we aren’t talking about breast enhancement surgery. No discussion of “boob jobs” here.
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Posted on May 19, 2008 by Trisha Torrey • There are no comments, hop to it!
Posted in Healthcare Decisions, Hospitals, Patient Safety • Tags: Hospitals, Medicare, Surgery, surveys
The US Department of Health and Human Services / Department of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) provides a website called Hospital Compare that allows potential patients to size up a hospital before they are admitted. Need to know how many heart surgeries are successful at your local hospital? Need to know its mortality rate? The information can be found at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
And now, a new addition to the website will make this website even more valuable to those of us who do our due diligence. I love this!
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Trisha Torrey • There are no comments, hop to it!