Massachusetts General Hospital
Hospital Information
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) allows you to search for data on hospital use, access, charges, quality and outcomes. The information provided is not for specific hospitals, but gives overall statistics for different types of hospitals at ... There are several print resources available at most local public, hospital and college libraries that provide information on US hospitals and other health care facilities: ... [Read More]
Massachusetts Constitution
The General Appropriation Bill. - All appropriationsbased upon the budget to be paid from taxes or revenues shall be incorporatedin a single bill which shall be called the general appropriation bill. Thegeneral court may increase, decrease, add or omit items in the budget. Thegeneral court may provide for its salaries, mileage, and expenses and fornecessary expenditures in anticipation of appropriations, but before finalaction on the general appropriation bill it shall not enact any otherappropriation bill except on recommendation of the governor. The governor mayat any time recommend to the general court supplementary budgets which shallbe subject to the same procedures as the original budget. ... [Read More]
Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs
ADEs and their subsequent injuries lead to increased hospital costs. Depending on facility size, hospital costs annually for all ADEs are estimated to be as much as $5.6 million per hospital ( 4 , 5 , 7 ). Before the advent of managed care, hospitals would have shifted these costs to the patient or the insurance company. Today, however, hospitals are likely to absorb the extra expense ( 15 ). Patients who experience ADEs have longer, more expensive hospitalizations than patients who do not suffer ADEs. For example, at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, researchers found that patients who experienced ADEs were hospitalized an average of 1 to 5 days longer than patients who did not suffer ADEs, with additional costs of up to $9,000 ( 1 ). ... [Read More]
Voluntary HIV Testing as Part of Routine Medical Care --- Massachusetts, 2002
This report is based in part on contributions by HE Smith, Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital staff, urgent care center staff, and HIV counselors at Boston Medical Center, Baystate Medical Center, Univ of Massachusetts Medical Center, Cambridge Hospital, Whidden Hospital, Boston; AIDS Bur, Partners/Fenway/Shattuck Center for AIDS Research, Massachusetts Dept of Public Health. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health. ... [Read More]
HHS/OIG, Audit -"Audit of the State of Massachusetts' Costs and Reporting of Funds Underthe Hospital Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism Program for the Period April 1, 2002 - August30, 2004,"(A-01-04-01504)
The objectives of this audit were to determine whether the State recorded and reported hospital preparedness program funds awarded, expended, obligated, and unobligated by priority planning area in accordance with its cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The State recorded and reported hospital preparedness program funds by priority planning area in accordance with the cooperative agreement with HRSA. We found no evidence of any unreasonable, unnecessary, unallocable, or unallowable costs. In addition, we found no evidence of supplanting of State or local expenditures with Federal hospital preparedness program funds. We noted that, as of August 30, 2004, the State had cumulative unobligated funds totaling $8,653,180, or 65 per cent of the $13,395858 awarded. We recommended that the State monitor its hospital preparedness funding to minimize unobligated fund balances and to ensure that program goals are met in ... [Read More]
State Programs: Massachusetts
Applicant Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital ... Applicant Institution: Children's Hospital Corporation ... Applicant Institution: Brigham and Women's Hospital ... [Read More]
SBA - MASSACHUSETTS District Office - Local Resources
Massachusetts Hospital Association ... Massachusetts General Court ... Office of the Attorney General ... [Read More]
Voluntary Testing of Hospital CAHPS(R)
Located in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital is the third oldest hospital in the United States and the largest in New England. MGH is an 897-bed tertiary care hospital serving patients in the Greater Boston community as well as referrals from around the globe. As an additional test site for HCAHPS development, MGH worked with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to: ... This additional HCAHPS test site spans northern and southern California. Kaiser Permanente provides integrated health services to over 6 million people, with 17 hospitals and 5,000 physicians in the northern region and 11 hospitals and 3,600 physicians in the southern region. With 26 hospitals participating, this site tested: ... [Read More]
Top executives
General and operations managers plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of companies or public and private sector organizations. Their duties include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services. In some organizations, the duties of general and operations managers may overlap the duties of chief executive officers. ... [Read More]
NIDDK Centers
Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA ... National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is part of the National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, MD, USA. General inquiries may be addressed to Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIDDK, NIH, Building 31, room 9A04 Center Drive, MSC 2560, Bethesda, MD 20892-2560, USA. ... [Read More]
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