Jun 3, 2012 ~ what IS working

ECONOMY

learm about the stimulus, taxes, jobs, auto bailout, reform, and signs of success

HEALTH CARE

The affordable Care Act helps families, reduces cost, and deserves our support.

EDUCATION

When government, teachers, parents and the community working together, our schools improve.

ENVIRONMENT

Americans conserve, stimulus boosts economy, discoveries are made daily

COMMUNITY

Working with neighbors, non profits and government agencies we can make a diference.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Innovation Grants: Adding Resources To Ideas To Improve Health Care Deliver

Posted by Linda H on 7:45:00 AM

By Christian Torres :: KHN Staff Writer :: MAY 17, 2012

To save on health care, you have to invest in it.

At least that's the thinking of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Last week, the CMS innovation center awarded 26 grants – worth a total of $122.6 million – to a variety of health care organizations. If these plans for better patient care pan out, the programs estimate they could reap about $254 million in savings over three years.

The innovation center is scheduled to announce several more awards in June.

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More Soldiers, Bigger Hospital

Posted by Linda H on 7:36:00 AM

Workers are one year into constructing an Army hospital to replace an aging facility that was never intended to handle as many patients as it does today.

The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, slated for a 2015 opening at Fort Hood in Texas, is both the largest Pentagon contract funded by the Recovery Act – $530 million – and the largest medical facility project in the military.

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