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Picking A Hospital Can Give You A Headache 
By CORRIE BENFIELD The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 13, 2008

If you needed surgery, and you had to pick a hospital in your area, how would you choose? You could base your decision on word of mouth. Or quality of care. Or even price.

Trying to gather all the information and weigh the facts can be complicated. One place to start is Medicare’s recently updated Hospital Compare tool at www.medicare.gov. The site allows you to gauge patient satisfaction, pricing and quality of care based on patient records submitted by participating hospitals.

The database was created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Hospital Quality Alliance, a public-private partnership, to track how often hospitals provide certain recommended treatments in four categories: surgery, pneumonia, heart attack and heart failure. It also includes patients’ responses to surveys about overnight stays, as well as the average amount Medicare pays for procedures at specific hospitals.

To give you an idea of how local hospitals measure up, here is information about the health care providers in Hillsborough and Pasco counties included in the database. Of the 14 hospitals, the five that provided the most patient records in each treatment area are compared. In cases in which the recommended treatment would not have benefited the patient, for reasons such as allergies, that information was not counted against the hospital.

Surgery patients who received preventive antibiotics one hour before incision: Continue reading ‘Picking a hospital can give you a headache’

FDA has issued an import alert regarding entry of cantaloupe from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer, because, based on current information, fruit from this company appears to be associated with a Salmonella Litchfield outbreak in the United States and Canada. The import alert advises FDA field offices that all cantaloupes shipped to the United States by this company are to be detained. Continue reading ‘FDA Warns Of Salmonella Risk From Agropecuaria Montelibano’