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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Focal Point intends to reinvent the hospital ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are hospitals doing more than this one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While I think the article is good, and community involvement is also good - -  there is so much more that hospitals could do IN THEIR FIELD of expertise instead of branching so far out.  Stick to what you know and then improve on that.  People need GOOD care and that's what concerns them the most in a hospital environment.There was a recent article in COnsumer Reports about hospitals with high incidents of staph infections and return visits to the hospital, and that report was far more interesting.ANother thing about some hospitals is that they are going bloodless during surgery.  &quot;Bloodless Surgery&quot;  Transfusion Alternatives&quot; is where medicine is heading.  See http://www.squidoo.com/blood-transfusion-alternatives]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[babsinva]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:35:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what effect on the cost of being treated?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unless all the extra stuff is paid for only by those who use it and the hospital gets the money, how can this improve actual care or reduce out of control costs?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[opcom]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:20:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[misses point of hospitals as acute care facilities]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hospitals are meant to care for the sick , they are not community centres. There is already a battleground raging around super bugs - mixing retail, daycare and Cdif boggles the mind.  Now imagine what that facility might look like in case of pandemic and how much more quickly contagions could spread in such a model.  Hospitals have always been meant to be acute care facilities  and separate from primary care needs.  If we begin to go too far along the path of community and primary care then they will no longer be able to accept the very sick/contagious patients and  will lose that role and then where do we go when we need that acute care?  We cannot turn our hospitals into community centres - that was never the intent.  If we want to develop primary care community based models then we should proceed with that but this is not the purpose of an acute care hospital.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:54:12 -0700</pubDate>
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