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...absence of systematic reform, many insurers have turned to pay-for-performance programs to try to improve quality of care, and cut costs along the way. Early efforts have shown positive signs. In the first three years of an ongoing pay-for-performance demonstration project led by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, more than 250 participating hospitals were assessed in five clinical areas. The hospitals performing in the top quintile received bonuses of an unspecified amount. In findings released in January, researchers following the project concluded that quality scores in the five measured clinical areas had improved on average...
...lived in the neighborhood, our quality of life has not changed in two years,” said Harvard Allston Task Force member Harry Mattison. “There are vacant Harvard properties all over the neighborhood and there’s a huge construction project going on which has had its rocky moments...
...hadn’t expected it, but that turned out to be the best present I could give to myself. I had been living for the previous month with Anke, a 30-something filmmaker who seemed to have decided that her latest creative project was to make my life miserable. After the first few days I began to wonder if she had my demise storyboarded somewhere in the secret parts of the apartment that I wasn’t allowed to enter. Even our conversations sounded like dramatic movie fights. Once she took me into the kitchen to scold...
...sake of sticking it out—I can see the deeper factors that might justify temporary struggle. In New Orleans, I’ll know that I have the opportunity to have a positive impact on my students. Similarly, when I was working on my English thesis, a project I could have dropped with very few consequences, I enjoyed it because I knew that my motivation was not fear of failure, nor a robotlike dedication to work...
...Harvard revealed in March that it would embark on a $1 billion renovation project of all 12 undergraduate Houses over the course of 10 to 15 years, starting as early as 2011. The estimated cost is vastly more than Harvard has ever spent on a single round of House restorations, and is equivalent to the amount the school plans to spend on the new science complex in Allston...