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Get
Better Maine to Feature Statewide
Book
Club with
T.R.
Reid! |
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Our friends
at the Maine Health Management Coalition, Quality Counts
and others are planning a state-wide book
club with T.R. Reid, author of "The Healing of
America":
UMaine Augusta
Portland Public
Library
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Did
You Know? |
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One
study found that patients were not informed of
seven percent of abnormal test results.
Another found that eight to 20 percent of
adults who were treated as outpatients did not
receive their test results at
all.
The U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) just proposed a new rule to
give you direct access to your own lab test results - a
crictical step forward. Many states have laws that
prohibit patients and families from getting their test
results directly from labs; they must go through
doctors' offices instead.
This
new rule is good news -when patients are
informed, that means better care and lower
costs for everyone!
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The Maine Campaign for Better
Care is closely monitoring the work
of the Congressional Super Committee, the group
charged with reducing the deficit by $1.2
trillion, a tall order indeed. We
want to ensure that Medicaid and Medicare
remain protected as vitally important
programs. Read below for news on the
proposals and what this all means for the future
of health care in America, especially for our
older, vulnerable populations.
Thanks
for reading our e-news update! If you
haven't already, we encourage you to sign your
organization on or join us as an individual
supporter of the Campaign.
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The National Campaign for
Better Care is leading the Healthy Hospital Initiative,
an effort to get
hospitals to coordinate care and improve patient
safety. Doing so will save lives and reduce
costs.
We
are also supporting the White House Partnership for Patients to
urge hospitals to sign a pledge to improve the
quality and coordination of care.
To
date more than 4,500 partners, including 2,000
hospitals have signed the pledge including these
Maine hospitals:
Will
you join us and encourage your local hospitals and
health care providers to sign
too?
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us on Facebook!
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you haven't already, please visit us on Facebook
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Want
to join the
Campaign? If
you want to help us improve care and reduce costs
in Maine, please contact Andrea Irwin, airwin@mainecahc.org, or call
622-7083.
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