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		<title>Hospitals Are Rated Top to Bottom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is more and more information being looked at regarding hospitals and their performance.  Now it is being released to the public on various websites that show which hospitals do the best work and keep patients safest and which are not.
For example, one particular website, HealthGrades.com, includes valuable information about mortallity rates and complication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Releases More Hospital Performance Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hospital deaths]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medicare information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare has been working to start making sure that hospitals deliver better results for their patients.  They have been studying the numbers of readmissions, deaths and other outcomes in over 4,000 hospitals throughout the country.  The studies are a precursor to rewarding hospitals for good performance by possibly offering bonuses versus paying hospitals at a [...]]]></description>
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