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By Michael McCarthy on January 13th, 2010
State begins publishing hospital infection rates
The report looks at bloodstream infections from central lines and ventilator-associated pneumonias.
Category: Harborview
By Michael McCarthy on July 15th, 2009
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 [...]
By admin on July 13th, 2009
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 [...]
By admin on July 09th, 2009
New Face of the Uninsured: Middle-Class Americans
By Austin Jenkins, NPR News
This story comes from our partner National Public Radio
Deborah Llavanes is one of a growing number of middle-income Americans who, because of the recession, have lost their jobs and their health coverage. For the first time in her life, Llavanes is turning to a community health clinic for her medical needs.
At [...]
By admin on June 09th, 2009
iCPR: Download cardio-pulmonary resuscitation instructions to your Apple or Google smart phones
King County’s Emergency Medical Services has created one-minute training videos that can be downloaded to your Apple iPod Touch phone or Google phone on how to provide cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and what to do if someone is choking .
“If people know CPR and choke aid procedures, they use them in an emergency. We developed a phone application [...]
By admin on June 06th, 2009
Health stories in the news
UW graduate nursing students protest tuition rise
Students enrolled in the University of Washington’s doctoral program for family nurse practitioners are protesting administrative changes that will boost their tuition 43 percent, Nick Perry reports in today’s Seattle Times.
The changes also mean some students who work at UW programs will lose tuition subsidies they have been receiving [...]
By admin on November 17th, 2008
Health officials respond to Seattle Times’ series on MRSA superbugs
MRSA
Infection control measures advocated by the Seattle Times in its series on infections in Washington hospitals by the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA are not supported by the current evidence, Seattle & King County health officials say.
In the series, the Times reports that Washington hospitals have failed to introduce aggressive infection control measures targeting the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known [...]
By admin on November 17th, 2008
Seattle Times series focuses on spread of MRSA superbug in local hospitals
Washington state hospitals have failed to introduce infection control measures that could reduce the number of serious infections and deaths due to the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA, (Multi-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), according to a series running in the Seattle Times this week.
Over the past decade the number of Washington hospital patients with MRSA infections has [...]
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