Daily roundup: Feb. 22, 2012

Bite-sized hospital and health industry news

Topics: Around the Nation

February 22, 2012

  • Alaska: Alaska is the only state that did not submit an application to receive a $1 million grant from the federal government to help establish a state health insurance exchange, and instead spent $200,000 to hire a consultant to aid the state in establishing its own exchange (Feidt, Kaiser Health News, 2/14).
  • Illinois: Provena Health-Resurrection Health Care will change its name to Presence Health, although the names of its individual hospitals will not change. The two health systems merged in November 2011. According to Sandra Bruce, the Catholic system's president and CEO, the new name "embodies the act of being present in every moment we share with those we serve" (Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, 2/20).
  • Maryland: The Maryland health information exchange last week announced plans to develop a secure electronic information system to enable 46 acute-care hospitals and physicians to share basic patient information (Sun, Washington Post, 2/16).
  • Massachusetts: The Children's Hospital Boston Community Asthma Initiative, which assists 283 children with asthma, saves $1.46 for every $1 spent on prevention efforts, according to a new study in Pediatrics. The initiative teaches families how to prevent attacks and provides vacuum cleaners and dust mite-proof bedding for patients (Lazar, Boston Globe, 2/20). 

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