South Dakota- Hospitals

Hospital checklists cut readmissions Medicare costs

In another win for inhospital checklists new research finds that a simple onepage checklist can keep heart patients out of the hospital as well as save Medicare billions of dollars according to a presentation Saturday at the American College of Cardiologys ACC annual scientific session After using the 27question checklist before discharge 30day ... Read More

Health care turns deadly

CORNWALL The prognosis is not good for the Canadian health system according to William Charney and Michael Hurley who brought their message to Cornwall Thursday As many as 63000 Canadians will die from a medical error or hospitalacquired infection this year making it the second leading cause of death they say They say research shows 18 of Ca... Read More