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Better care could cut trauma deaths by 20 percent: Report
Health News // 8 years ago
Better care could cut trauma deaths by 20 percent: Report
Improved care could prevent one in every five deaths currently lost to traumatic injuries in the United States, a new federal report finds.
Health News // 1 decade ago
Study: 20% of U.S. healthcare wasted
Twenty percent of the more than $2.2 trillion spent on healthcare in the United States each year is wasted, two healthcare experts suggest.
Health News // 1 decade ago
Hospital death rate may differ from survey
U.S. hospitals that do well on patient surveys do not necessarily do score well on heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia rates, a USA Today analysis finds.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
HHS: Ind. Planned Parenthood law illegal
A new Indiana law that would deny Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood is illegal, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Medicare head faces irritated GOP senators
President Obama's Medicare chief, during a brief Senate committee hearing Wednesday, faced angry Republican lawmakers intent on repealing healthcare reform.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Obama submits Berwick for confirmation
President Obama, without fanfare, submitted Donald Berwick's name to the U.S. Senate Monday for confirmation as the top Medicare and Medicaid administrator.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
GOP attacks recess appointment of Berwick
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., slammed President Obama's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to lead the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Berwick sworn in at CMS
Donald Berwick was sworn in Monday as head of the U.S. agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid amid persistent political squabbling about his appointment.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Berwick, new Medicare chief, an admirer of an imperfect NHS
U.S. President Barack Obama's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid avoided another savage fight in Congress with Republicans still tasting bile after the passage of healthcare reform earlier this year.
U.S. News // 1 decade ago
Obama fills post while Congress is away
U.S. President Obama Wednesday bypassed the congressional confirmation process and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid.


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If you take a five- or six-year perspective, I think what the Veterans Health Administration has done is stunning

U.S. veterans' health care in upturn Aug 22, 2005

In the U.S., we favor specialty services and hospitals over primary care and community-based services

Berwick, new Medicare chief, an admirer of an imperfect NHS Jul 11, 2010

You could have protected the wealthy and the well, instead of recognizing that sick people tend to be poorer and that poor people tend to be sicker, and that any healthcare funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must -- must -- redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate

Berwick, new Medicare chief, an admirer of an imperfect NHS Jul 11, 2010

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Donald Mark Berwick (born in 1946 in New York City, and raised in Moodus, Connecticut) is the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and was formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) a not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. On July 7, 2010, Barack Obama appointed Dr. Berwick to serve as the Administrator of CMS through a recess appointment.

Berwick has studied the management of health care systems, with emphasis on using scientific methods and evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research to improve the tradeoff among quality, safety and costs. Among IHI's projects are online courses for health care professionals for reducing Clostridium difficile infections, lowering the number of heart failure readmissions or managing advanced disease and palliative care.

Berwick's critics have cited his statements about the need for health care to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor, and his favorable statements about the British health care systems (which they accuse of rationing care and "death panels"). They quote Berwick as saying, “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care - the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” They point to statements such as, “Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”

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