Word: pennsylvania
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...instant access to patient histories, improving information-sharing, reducing pharmacy errors and eliminating the hassle of tracking down charts. The staff cafeteria even gives away fruit, illustrating Mayo's apple-a-day commitment to prevention and wellness. Like other low-cost, high-quality institutions - the Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger in Pennsylvania, Intermountain in Utah - Mayo is dedicated to offering integrated and coordinated care, with a broad network of providers working together to reduce redundant tests and office visits, improve disease management and generally avoid treating patients like pinballs. "It's a team sport here," says David Lewallen, a Mayo orthopedic surgeon...
...Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., the women’s swim team held a 'virtual swim meet' with Bryn Mawr College, in Pennsylvania, about 112 miles away. Each team swam in its home pool, then compared times to determine the winners. (“We probably saved $900 on bus travel,” said William G. Durden, Dickinson’s president...
...Congressman Paul Kanjorski, a Democrat from Pennsylvania who heads up the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees Fannie and Freddie, backs a plan that would break up the firms into as many as 15 smaller companies. As with public utilities, he thinks the government could regulate what these firms could charge and how much they could make. That would limit the risk-taking and excess use of leverage that caused the two firms to collapse. "I think it would be bad for the mortgage market to get rid of them completely," said Kanjorski, who also spoke at the conference...
...think he has to realize that flying to New York is self-indulgent. Go down to the corner bar and have a drink, a shot and a beer.' RICK SANTORUM, former Pennsylvania Senator, slamming the Obama Administration for spending an estimated $24,000 to send the President and First Lady to Manhattan for dinner and a Broadway show...
...Long Run. The book, which laid out the records of stocks and bonds going back to 1802 and found stocks winning by a mile for almost every 30-year period over those two centuries, became a must-read for investors. Siegel--a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School--became what one journalist described as "the intellectual godfather of the 1990s bull market...