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What should we teach the nurse of the future?

What should we teach the nurse of the future?

Dean of the UW School of Nursing blogs on the Future of Nursing

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Children's and Laurelhurst neighbors strike deal on hospital's expansion plans

Children’s and Laurelhurst neighbors strike deal on hospital’s expansion plans

Compromise ends a battle between the hospital and neighborhood over expansion plan.

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UW hosts Mini-Medical School

UW hosts Mini-Medical School

Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis so register online now.

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Symptoms may be of little help in the early detection of ovarian cancer

Symptoms may be of little help in the early detection of ovarian cancer

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study.

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Higher-dose pain prescriptions linked to higher overdose risk

Higher-dose pain prescriptions linked to higher overdose risk

Patients on highest doses were nine times more likely to overdose than those on lowest doses

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Hutchinson Center to host free science lecture series in February

Hutchinson Center to host free science lecture series in February

Topics: Evolutionary Arms Race, Cord Blood Stem Cells, Immune System vs. Cancer, and Tumor Vaccines

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State begins publishing hospital infection rates

State begins publishing hospital infection rates

The report looks at bloodstream infections from central lines and ventilator-associated pneumonias.

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Fred Hutch researchers receive $7.9 million grant to study genetics of esophageal cancer

Fred Hutch researchers receive $7.9 million grant to study genetics of esophageal cancer

The project will study genetic information from more than 7,000 people.

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Seattle's Fred Hutch to help build cancer clinic in Uganda

Seattle’s Fred Hutch to help build cancer clinic in Uganda

New center will target cancers caused by infections.

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Evergreen launches digital mammography coach

Evergreen launches digital mammography coach

The coach will provide same-day mammography services at the Evergreen clinics in Bothell, Sammamish and Duvall every week on a regular rotation.

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Seattle researchers team up to fight brain cancer

Seattle researchers team up to fight brain cancer

The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy from glioblastoma has called attention to the challenge of developing better treatment for brain cancers. Below is column by Dr. Greg Foltz on brain cancer research that LocalHealthGuide published last May to call attention to the Annual Seattle Brain Cancer Walk to raise funds for brain cancer research..

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As economic conditions force a tighter job market, new nurses find it’s harder than ever to land their dream job—or any job, for that matter.

As economic conditions force a tighter job market, new nurses find it’s harder than ever to land their dream job—or any job, for that matter.

“Nursing, even in hard times, was thought to be recession-proof.”
By Chris Linden and Melissa Suran, Medill News Service
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. Nursing student Barbara Lopez had been told for a long time that she would have an easy time finding a job.
But it took her five months—starting before she graduated in June—to [...]

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Views: The Health Reform Bills Would Be Great For the Business Of Health Care

Views: The Health Reform Bills Would Be Great For the Business Of Health Care

By Robert Laszewski
President of the consulting firm Health Policy and Strategy Associates
“From the looks of these health care bills, this ‘health care reform’ thing will be great for business!”
Have you noticed how none of the big health care business special interests is running any negative health care reform ads? Why should they when each is [...]

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New doctors at Virginia Mason

New doctors at Virginia Mason

Six new physicians have joined Virginia Mason Medical Center.
Cardiology
Sara Weiss, MD, joined Virginia Mason in the Section of Cardiology. Weiss received her medical school training from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. She completed her internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship and heart failure fellowship at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Hematology and Oncology
Nanette Robinson, [...]

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Code Blue: Out-of-Network Charges Can Spur Financial Emergency

Code Blue: Out-of-Network Charges Can Spur Financial Emergency

By Paul Raeburn
August 19, 2009
On the evening of March 1, 2008, Gary Diego was relaxing with his wife, Ellen, when she abruptly lost her hearing, began repeating herself, and seemed to be losing her grip.
Gary Diego with a picture of his wife Ellen at his home in Truckee, Calif. Photo: Brad Horn/KHN
Alarmed, Diego rushed her [...]

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Health Co-ops Touted as Alternative to Public Plan

Health Co-ops Touted as Alternative to Public Plan

Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative seen as potential model for health reform.

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Health stories in the news – Aug. 17th

McDermott wants to make reporting of medical errors mandatory
Hearst newsgathers Eric Nalder and Cathleen Crowley report in the SeattlePI.com that U.S. Representatives Jim McDermott wants mandatory national reporting of medical errors.
Nalder and Crowley’s story covers the reaction to a Hearst investigative series Dead by Mistake.
The SeattlePI.com newsgathers were part of an investigative team of seven Hearst [...]

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Checking In With Denver Health CEO Patricia Gabow On A “Model” Health Care System

By Andrew Villegas – Kaiser Health News
Patricia Gabow – Photo: Kaiser Health News
President Barack Obama’s trip Saturday to Grand Junction, Colorado is meant to highlight an efficient, high-quality health care system, one with “integrated care.”
That phrase has become a popular term these days as Congress and policy gurus contemplate how the national health care delivery [...]

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Health Stories in the News - Aug. 14

Health Stories in the News – Aug. 14

Allow Seattle Children’s to expand, says Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council should reverse ruling of a hearing examiner who has rejected Seattle Children’s expansion plans, says Seattle Times argues in an editorial today’s paper.
The hearing examiner found that hospital’s planned expansion, which would add 1.5 million square feet of space on its Lauralhurst campus, was inappropriate [...]

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For Dying and Seriously Ill Children, Hope For Better Care

For Dying and Seriously Ill Children, Hope For Better Care

By Carol Ann Campbell
August 13, 2009

NEWARK, N.J. – Fourteen-year-old Prince Jackson made a fist and banged his hand on his head, again and again. “It was like this,” he said, trying to describe the blinding pain from the tumor growing inside his head. “It hurt so much. It wouldn’t stop.”
Jackson could not read or sleep [...]

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Transcript of President Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall”

The White House has released a transcript of President Barack Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall” meeting held yesterday, August 11 at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
To read it click on “Read more…”.

Transcript released by the White House:
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. [...]

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$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach

$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach

The U.S. government is making available $8.1 million for education loan repayment for nurses willing to work for two years at facilities that face a critical nurse shortages.
The funds will be offered on a competitive basis to 100 registered nurses.
In Washington state the program will offer five positions: four at the University of Washington Medical [...]

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Checking In With Chip Kahn: 'Potential for Hospitals and Our Patients To Be Big Winners'

Checking In With Chip Kahn: ‘Potential for Hospitals and Our Patients To Be Big Winners’

By Phil Galewitz – Kaiser Health News
August 12, 2009
Charles “Chip” Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, has been a major player on the Washington health policy scene for nearly 25 years.
As head of the lobbying group representing investor-owned hospitals, Kahn helped negotiate a deal in June among the hospital industry, the White [...]

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Health stories in the news

Teachers more likely to spank disabled children
More than 200,000 U.S. schoolchildren are spanked, paddled or subjected to some other form of corporal punishment each year with disabled children receiving a disproportionate share of such punishments, according to a report prepared by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
“At least 41,972 students with [...]

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For Major Health Industry Players, Reform’s Positives Outweigh Negatives

For Major Health Industry Players, Reform’s Positives Outweigh Negatives

By Phil Galewitz
August 11, 2009
When Congress and the White House began talking about a health care overhaul, the industries that profit from the $2.5 trillion system were understandably nervous.
But as the legislation takes shape, it appears much of the anxiety was misplaced. Most of the major health care players, including hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical [...]

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Five Lessons From Seattle On Adopting Electronic Medical Records

By Julie Appleby
SEATTLE — Atop a hill here, three of Washington state’s pre-eminent hospital systems sit within blocks of each other, equipped with state-of-the-art electronic medical record systems that track test results, send warnings about dangerous drug interactions and provide medical histories.
But a patient crossing the street from one hospital to another would be wise [...]

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What is a 'medical home" and is it right for you?

What is a ‘medical home” and is it right for you?

The concept of a “medical home”—a clinic where you are followed by a team of primary care providers who know you and can coordinate your care—is getting more attention these days. (See NPR’s story on Swedish Medical Center’s “medical home” program in Ballard below.)
Here Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare [...]

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'Medical Homes' Concept Takes Off In Seattle

‘Medical Homes’ Concept Takes Off In Seattle

Seattle’s KPLU reporter Keith Seinfeld has a story on NPR this week about Swedish Hospital’s new “medical home” clinic in Ballard.
LocalHealthGuide’s story from March is below.
By Keith Seinfeld, NPR News
August 7, 2009
This story comes from KHN partner NPR
When President Obama and other Democrats talk about changing the health care system, one phrase that comes up [...]

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March 30 LHG story on Swedish Medical Center's new "medical home" in Ballard

March 30 LHG story on Swedish Medical Center’s new “medical home” in Ballard

This is a reprint of an article we ran March 30th on LocalHealthGuide.

This week Swedish Medical Center opens a new primary-care clinic that will use the medical-home model of healthcare delivery.
Swedish officials believe the clinic, which will be located at its campus in Ballard, is the first in the country to be designed from [...]

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In Massachusetts, A Radical Idea For Changing How Doctors Are Paid

By Richard Knox, NPR News
This story comes from Kaiser Health News partner NPR
Massachusetts is proud of its landmark 3-year-old health insurance law. It has brought the state’s proportion of uninsured down from around 10 percent in 2005 to only 2.6 percent — the lowest in the nation.
Dr. Richard Lopez is chief physician at Atrius Health [...]

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Health stories in the news–Aug. 4th

Lack of patients for clinical trials slows cancer research
New York Times reporter Gina Kolata leads her story about how the lack of patients willing to participate in studies is hobbling cancer research with a quote from Dr. Scott Ramsey of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Dr. Ramsay, a cancer researcher and health economist at the Seattle [...]

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Gilda’s Club Seattle will host three talks next month. All talks are free and open to the public.

Talk with the Expert: Advanced Ovarian Cancer Treatment Options—Sept. 10th.
Talk with the Expert: Lung Cancer—Sept. 17th.
Keeping Healthy After Cancer—Sept. 24th.

9/10/09  Free Discussion:  Talk with the Expert:  Advanced Ovarian Cancer Treatment Options
Join us for Talk with the Expert;  an opportunity [...]

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Hospice volunteers needed in King and Snohomish counties

Group Health is seeking hospice volunteers with weekday availability in Seattle, East King and Snohomish counties.
Hospice volunteers stay with terminally ill patients in their homes while caregivers take needed breaks, visit patients in nursing homes and other facilities, assist with errands, transportation and other practical tasks.
The next training sessions will be held Monday, Tuesday, and [...]

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Hospitals Divided Over Proposal For Medicare Payment Czar

Hospitals Divided Over Proposal For Medicare Payment Czar

By Phil Galewitz
July 24, 2009
While a cornerstone of President Obama’s plan to trim medical costs – an independent commission to determine how much Medicare pays doctors and hospitals – has run into strong opposition from powerful industry groups, certain hospital systems are breaking ranks and supporting it.
Many are these are so-called “model” systems, such as the [...]

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Local Hospitals and Doctors Join Forces to Improve Health Care, Restrain Costs

Local Hospitals and Doctors Join Forces to Improve Health Care, Restrain Costs

By Phil Galewitz
July 22, 2009
Donald Berwick, president and chief executive office of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, organized yesterday's all-day conference about communities with higher-quality, lower-cost care.
Communities across the country aren’t waiting for Congress to take action to improve health care quality and contain costs.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the two largest hospitals are sharing [...]

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Comments By CBO Director Underscore Conservatives’ Health Bill Concerns

Eric Palin – Kaiser Health News
July 16, 2009
A leader of the Blue Dog Coalition of conservative House Democrats said today that he and six others in the group will vote together to block health care legislation in committee unless changes are made to slow the rate of growth of federal health care spending and to [...]

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Sports concussion program opens at Harborview

Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center has opened a new center to evaluate young athletes who have had head injuries and provide training to teachers, coaches, parents and others involved in school sports on how to prevent, assess and treat concussions.
The new center, called the UW Medicine/Seattle Children’s Sports Concussion Program, was launched to help schools and [...]

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Views: Blue Dogs Should Look Beyond Cost Containment for Progress on Health Care

By Jonathan Cohn
July 13, 2009
This column is a collaboration between KHN and The New Republic.
Negotiations over health care reform screeched to a halt late last week when 40 centrist Democrats–members of the House Blue Dog Coalition–signed a letter saying they could not support the House’s emerging legislation without significant changes.
Their major complaint? They said the [...]

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Health in the news – July 13

Money and medicine
KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give
John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they provide.
Salaries, Ryan [...]

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Food can cost twice as much at some Seattle supermarket chains--UW nutrition researchers find

Food can cost twice as much at some Seattle supermarket chains–UW nutrition researchers find

It will cost you roughly twice as much to buy a standard “market basket” of food from PCC in Kirkland than it would if you had shopped at Fred Meyer, a study by University of Washington researchers has found.
Market Basket Price in Dollars by Chain
The purpose of the study was to see if there were [...]

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