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American Heart Association Announces New 2024-2025 National Volunteer Leaders

DAIC

He most recently served as President of Yale New Haven Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Rosen is a leading clinical expert in women’s cardiovascular disease with a focus on health disparities, gender-based research, community partnerships and education.

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Abstract TP55: A Statewide Quality Improvement Project: Identifying Disparities in Dysphagia Screening for Stroke Patients

Stroke Journal

Objectives:One of the principal cornerstones of the Minnesota Department of Health’s Stroke Program is quality improvement. Minnesota Primary (PSC) and Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC) hospitals have consistently demonstrated performance below the national benchmark (76%) for dysphagia screening.

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The Evolving Computed Tomography Market

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It reported the rate of CCTA exams by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased markedly from 2010 to 2019. Over that period, the rates of CCTA by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased by 355%, according to findings of Russell A. Rao, MD, FACR, from Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals.

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ACO REACH: A New Evolution in At-Risk Primary Care

The Beat Blog

There are many flavors of ACOs — including hospital-based ACOs, independent ACOs that offer what tends to be called “facility-based primary care” (that is, they build and run their own centers), and “over the top” players such as Aledade, Evolent, and Privia that collaborate with existing independent primary care practices.