To the rescue! Birmingham hospitals donate life-saving 12-lead EKG machines to rescue units.
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Biomedical subjects
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Montgomery's Baptist Health takes home AHA's "Living the Vision" Award.
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ALL Kids initiative: Alabama hospitals help with outreach efforts.
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The Dr. will see you now--right now! Hospitalists finding increasing role in health care system.
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Breath testing for Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a breath of fresh air?
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Recycling, little things often begin environmental push in hospitals.
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Decisions, decisions.
A hospital bed in the Intensive Care Unit sits ominously vacant. The family of the patient has just made the gut-wrenching decision to remove the ventilator, and life-support equipment. End-of-Life issues are some of the most common ethical dilemmas that face hospitals every day. But there are a large number of other questions and conflicts that confront hospital personnel. To tackle the issues, many hospitals have formed multi-disciplinary ethics committees to help patients, families and staff approach the really tough problems.
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AlaONE looks to keep quality of care responsibility on hospitals.
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Healthcare and the environment. Hospitals search for ways to offset negative effects on the environment.
Regulations, accreditation, economics and public outcry are just some of the reasons hospitals are becoming more environmentally conscious. Others just want to do their part to help the environment. Whatever the reason, healthcare organizations seem to be searching for ways to mitigate their effect on the environment.
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Special delivery. Jefferson County hospitals and other organizations join together to improve healthcare delivery to uninsured.
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Medical savings accounts: weighing the pros and cons of this new form of healthcare coverage.
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Satisfactory condition? Are your employees satisfied? How's morale? Just what is your hospital doing to create a productive yet enjoyable work environment?
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Falling through the cracks. Why the number of uninsured people in the United States continues to rise and what hospitals are doing about it.
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Staying on target.
In the area of market research, it's critical to be accurate and accumulate useful information, but it's also important to be cost-effective. Sometimes, a lot of planning and a little innovation can be the answer to obtaining the right information at the right price.
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Bedside manner.
The hospital setting can be a place of healing and hope for the future. Unfortunately, it can also be a site filled with pain and grief. How hospitals deal emotionally with patients, and others who experience trauma is an important aspect of overall care. The following is a look at the importance of compassionate care and how some Alabama hospitals tend to the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of patients and their loved ones.
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