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Children’s Hospital San Antonio. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital form South Texas Pediatric Partnership

Children’s Hospital San Antonio. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital form South Texas Pediatric Partnership

By Editor on March 5, 2013

Three Texas hospital systems will collaborate to ensure children of San Antonio and South Texas now will have access to world-class pediatric care.

Posted in Central Texas, Featured | Tagged Baylor College of Medicine, children, Christus Santa Rosa Health System, hospitals, pediatric, Texas Children's Hospital, University of Texas San Antonio | Leave a response

Multiple Delieveries are in the Numbers for Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women

Multiple Delieveries are in the Numbers for Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women

By Editor on September 20, 2012

Leah Perkins final got to go home. The smallest sextuplet of parents Lauren and David Perkins made a special homecoming earlier this week as she was discharged from Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women after a four and one half month stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The proud parents took Leah home to join her five brothers and sisters.

Posted in Featured, Health News Texas | Tagged delieveries, hospitals, multiple births, newborns. sextuplets, quintuplets, Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women | Leave a response

Survey: Hospitals Name Their Least Favorite Insurers

Survey: Hospitals Name Their Least Favorite Insurers

By Editor on August 22, 2012

Each year ReviveHealth, a hospital public relations firm in Santa Barbara, Calif., asks hospitals to name the most problematic payers. This year’s loser: WellPoint

Posted in Featured, National Health News | Tagged BlueCross and Blue Shield, Cigna, Health News Texas, hospitals, insurance, Kaiser Health News, patients, Wellpointe | Leave a response

U.S. News & World Report’s List of Best Hospitals Includes Two Seton Healthcare Family Hospitals

U.S. News & World Report’s List of Best Hospitals Includes Two Seton Healthcare Family Hospitals

By Editor on July 18, 2012

U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Hospitals for 2012-13 includes two Seton Healthcare Family hospitals, Seton Medical Center Austin and University Medical Center Brackenridge rank No. 1 and No. 2 among 32 acute care hospitals for adults in the Austin metro area.

Posted in Central Texas, Featured, National Health News | Tagged Dell Children's Medical Center, Health News Texas, hospitals, Seton Healthcare Family, Seton Medical Center Austin, U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Hospitals for 2012-13, University Medical Center Brackenridge | Leave a response

Top 10 Children’s Hospitals in the United States includes Houston's Texas Children's

Top 10 Children’s Hospitals in the United States includes Houston’s Texas Children’s

By Editor on July 2, 2012

As you consider treatment facilities for your child, keep the nation’s 10 best children’s hospitals in mind.

Posted in Patient Care | Tagged AupairJobs.com, children, Health News Texas, hospitals, patients, Texas Children's Hospital | Leave a response

Letters To The Editor of Kaiser Health News: Thoughts On Migrant Health, High-Deductible Health Plans, and More

Letters To The Editor of Kaiser Health News: Thoughts On Migrant Health, High-Deductible Health Plans, and More

By Editor on June 28, 2012

“Fear Keeps Migrants From Getting Health Care,” brings into focus a simple fact: in today’s global world, disease does not discriminate among populations, nor recognize national borders.

Posted in Featured, National Health News | Tagged DELIVERY OF CARE, HEALTH COSTS, Health News Texas, High-Deductible Health Plans, hospitals, Kaiser Health News, Migrant Health, TOPICS | Leave a response

U.S. News & World Report Ranks Texas Children’s Hospital 4th Among Nations Pediatric Institutions

U.S. News & World Report Ranks Texas Children’s Hospital 4th Among Nations Pediatric Institutions

By Editor on June 6, 2012

There are numerous health concerns children face in the world today. Health issues that include: ADHD, cancer, arthritis, allergies, pulmonary, autism and orthopedic. Houson’s Texas Children’s Hospital has once again been named as a national leader among pediatric hospitals in treating children for these and other medical issues faced by Texas children.

Posted in Featured, Health News Texas | Tagged Health News Texas, hospitals, Houston, medical, Texas Children's Hospital, U.S.News & World Report | Leave a response

As Patients' Records Go Ditigal, Theft And Hacking Problems Grow

As Patients’ Records Go Ditigal, Theft And Hacking Problems Grow

By Editor on June 4, 2012

As more doctors and hospitals go digital with medical records, the size and frequency of data breaches are alarming privacy advocates and public health officials.

Posted in Featured, National Health News | Tagged doctors, Health IT, Health News Texas. data breaches, hospitals, Kaiser Health News, medical records, Washington Post | Leave a response

167 Texas Hospitals Recognized for Raising Quality of Care

167 Texas Hospitals Recognized for Raising Quality of Care

By Editor on April 10, 2012

Memorial Hermann Hospital System of Houston and 
Methodist Hospital of San Antonio sat a the top of the TMF Health Quality Institute Health Care Quality Improvement Award by achieving gains in key clinical areas designated as national health care priorities.

Posted in Featured, Health News Texas | Tagged clinical anational health care, Health Care Quality, Health News Texas, hospitals, Memorial Hermann Hospital System, Methodist Hospital, Texas, TMF Health Quality Institute | Leave a response

Effort To Pay Hospitals Based On Quality Didn’t Cut Death Rates, Study Finds

Effort To Pay Hospitals Based On Quality Didn’t Cut Death Rates, Study Finds

By Editor on March 29, 2012

Medicare’s largest effort to pay hospitals based on how they perform — an inspiration for key parts of the health care law — did not lead to fewer deaths, a new study has found.

Posted in Featured, Research & Education | Tagged Harvard School of Public Health, Health News Texas, HEALTH REFORM, hospitals, Kaiser Health News, Medicare, Medicare Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration, QUALITY | Leave a response

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