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...HCAHPS survey are public. Interested patients can compare scores from hospitals across the U.S. at HHS.gov; visitors can search by institution name or by location and view the performance of each hospital on several measures of clinical success, including the patient survey. Although roughly 40% of hospitals did not report any survey data this year (on average, hospitals that did report patient-survey results also scored better on traditional quality measures), consumers can expect a more complete data set next year. Soon, reporting patient-perception data, like reporting of other hospital-performance data, will be linked to Medicare funding...
...History of: The Weathermen" implied that Bill Ayers' terroristic activity was ancient history and that he reformed his ways long before his relationship with Obama [Oct. 20]. Quite the contrary: in 2001, Ayers said of his domestic bombings that he felt his group didn't do enough. Not to report this salient fact was misleading and biased. Andy Horvath, ELVERSON...
...action by a series of studies that have shown the severity of the country's dropout crisis. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world where children are now less likely to receive a high school diploma than their parents were, according to an Oct. 23 report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group based in Washington. At the same time, two-thirds of new jobs in the U.S. require at minimum a college degree. That education gap could lead to devastating outcomes if a lack of skilled workers leads to more industries heading overseas...
...change. His two biggest priorities are lowering the number of technical fouls called in games - during the 2007 playoffs in particular, the refs called techs at an alarming rate, needlessly inserting themselves into the action - and tackling the perception that referees favor certain star players, which the recent report specifies as a real concern. Johnson has encouraged coaches and owners to contact him directly with bias complaints...
...official committees, informal groups like the House Masters’ Council or Caucus of Chairs usually weigh in, and a bill often merits the creation of a committee with subcommittees to conduct consultations and meet with still more committees and working groups. These subcommittees convene and then write a report, which is then redistributed to other committees for discussion. Since these committees are advisory and cannot make binding decisions, a bill may or may not reach the next stage: the Docket Committee. The Faculty rules stipulate that this group determines what the 18-person elected Faculty Council will discuss...