Nonprofit Hospitals Still Raising Money, Survey Finds
WASHINGTON — Despite the poor economy, U.S. nonprofit hospitals and healthcare systems managed an eight percent increase in philanthropic donations last year, to over $8 billion, with individual donors contributing almost 60 percent of that total.
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Surgery Infection Rates Made Public Online
SEATTLE — The Washington State Hospital Association has begun releasing hospital-specific surgical infection rate data public for the first time. The release of information comes as a result of the Washington State Legislature requiring the data to be collected and made public in 2007. By law, hospitals are required to report into an electronic database reporting infection rates for cardiac, hysterectomy, and orthopedic procedures.
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