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• Shorter Boston Globe: How Elite Hospitals Rake in the Bucks

  BNET - 2009-01-02

  Top-tier hospitals in Massachusetts are raking in the bucks because they've convinced health-insurance companies to reimburse them at much higher rates than their competitors, the Boston Globe reports. But because the series clocks in at almost 15,000 words, we present the Just the Facts Edition of the emerging Massachusetts hospital...

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• Charles M. Sennott

  - 2007-04-01

  Boston Globe, February 11, 2007 "Told to Wait, a Marine Dies." As the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War approaches, it's a lamentable fact that America does not provide adequate medical services to soldiers returning from combat. The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott provides the tragic...

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• Push for PET in Massachusetts

  - 2005-10-01

  The Boston Globe reported on August 26 that Massachusetts hospitals are seeking to nearly double the number of PET and PET/CT scanners in the state, raising the number from 12 to 22. In response, national and regional health insurers have issued sharp warnings about possible effects on medical costs. "Our...

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• Hospital executive hopes to right struggling Boston institution.

  - 2004-10-24

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 24--For 10 years, Ellen Zane oversaw community doctors for Partners HealthCare, the parent organization of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals and the biggest and most profitable hospital and...

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• Children's hospital buys Waltham, Mass., site.

  - 2004-09-23

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 23--Children's Hospital, which is bursting out of its Longwood Avenue campus, has purchased Sterling Medical Center in Waltham -- the former Waltham Hospital -- for $53 million in cash from ...

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• Some caulking may be linked to cancer, Harvard study finds.

  - 2004-07-21

  By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 21--The rubbery caulking around windows in schools, dormitories, and hospitals may be a serious but unrecognized source of PCB contamination, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health announced yesterday. ...

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• TAP acquittals shouldn't mean incentives return, advocates say.

  - 2004-07-15

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 15--Although a federal jury in Boston acquitted sales representatives and midlevel managers in the TAP Pharmaceutical Products case yesterday, it is unlikely drug companies will return to expensive junkets and...

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• Massachusetts Lawmaker Pushes for Bill Allowing Elective Heart Surgery.

  - 2004-05-16

  By Jenn Abelson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 16--A South Shore legislator is trying to change a state law to allow community hospitals to perform elective angioplasty to unclog coronary arteries without having on-site open-heart surgery programs. ...

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• New CEO Aims to Stabilize Boston-Area Hospital Network.

  - 2004-05-13

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 13--The chief executive of Caritas Christi Health Care said he will spend some of the next 30 days reassuring staff and trying to create stability at New England's second-largest hospital network,...

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• Interim President to Leave New England's Caritas Christi Heath Care System.

  - 2004-05-12

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 12--The consultant chosen by Boston Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley to oversee Caritas Christi Health Care is leaving his position as interim president of the hospital network. Emmett C. Murphy announced his departure...

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