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2007
Iraq vets' troubles appear long after return
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - November 25, 2007
VA Healthcare – VISN 4 and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Put More than $38 million Towards Improvements for Fiscal Year 2007
Western PA Hospital News - October, 2007
Cameos of Caring Award Recipients
Western PA Hospital News - October 2007
Robotic aids for the disabled and elderly
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - November 14, 2007
VAPHS MRSA Initiative feature
Monitor-Index and Evening Democrat in Moberly, Missouri - November 14, 2007
Health screenings available to veterans
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - November 12, 2007
Valor Health Care takes over outpatient services
Tribune-Review -
Saturday, November 10, 2007
$1 million needed to aid VA patients' families
The Tribune-Review - Saturday, November 10, 2007
'Superbug' spreading, but statistics about it aren't
Houston Chronicle - October 30, 2007
Staph Screening May Wipe Out Germ
Associated Press - October 25, 2007
MRSA fears fan calls for action Hospitals work to show they're addressing problem
Modern Healthcare Magazine - October 22, 2007
Profiles in Leadership - Terry Gerigk Wolf
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - September, 2007
Profiles in Leadership - Adam Gordon
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - September, 2007
Newsmaker: Ron Rabold
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - August 17, 2007
Study Authors Previously Fired From Pittsburgh VA System's Oakland Hospital
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - August 23, 2007
VAPHS Labs Create Modern Technology to Improve Lives
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - July 22, 2007
American Hospitals Kill 100,000 A Year- Mrs. Wolf is quoted
ArticlesBase.com; Pat Carpenter - August 8, 2007
Missing Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare laptops won't cause security breach.
The Tribune-Review
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Congressmen Claim VA Funding Problems Impede Pittsburgh VA Construction, Relocation Projects.
WPCW-TV Pittsburgh - July 23 2007, 10:16 p.m.
VA upgrade may stall if funding dwindles
Pittsburg
Tribune-Review - Tuesday, July 24,
2007
Lack of funding may stall veterans project
Unless expansion is completed at VA facilities, costs are expected to climb.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tuesday, July 24, 2007
PA Governor Takes First Steps Toward Health Care Reform
Associated Content
The People's Media Company
Rendell declares germ warfare at hospitals throughout state
"Rendell's plan
largely was inspired by the work of several
hospitals in Western Pennsylvania -- including the
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System -- that have sharply
cut back the number of infections among hospitalized
patients. "
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Saturday, July 21, 2007
Vets push hard to win
medals at 2007 Wheelchair
Games
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
July 9, 2007
VA Pittsburgh plans temporary housing to accommodate
families of ailing vets
Pittsburgh Business Times - June 29, 2007
VA Transition Advocates Ready to Help Wounded
Warriors Get Care, Benefits
emilitary.org - June 29, 2007
Nurses! We Salute You! - VA Pittsburgh Healthcare
System - PDF file
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - May 22, 2007
Nursing: A Profession and a Passion - PDF file
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - May 22, 2007
New director named for VA Pittsburgh Healthcare
System
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May
2, 2007
New VA chief here will be monitoring construction
activity
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May
2, 2007
New Veteran Affairs director named for Pittsburgh
Healthcare System
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
-
May 2, 2007
New director of VA Pittsburgh Healthcare named
Pittsburgh Business Times - May 1, 2007
VA hospital vet Butler bound
(fifth article from top of
page)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - March 15, 2007
Transplant centers fret about pending change
Pittsburgh Business Times - March 27, 2007
VA center's director gets new job
The Patriot News - April 10, 2007
Veterans rate area VA hospitals high
New Castle News - March 21, 2007
3 local VA hospitals get timely reviews, upgrades
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - March 15, 2007
Legion leader defends care at
Walter Reed
The Patriot-News - March 14, 2007
Group helps obtain benefits
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- March 13, 2007
Not many gripes over VA Hospital care
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
March 11, 2007
Newsmaker: David E. Cowgill
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- March 8, 2007
PUBLIC NOTICE:
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
VAPHS - February 27, 2007
Hospital construction through region on the rise
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- February 25, 2007
Local hospitalized veterans still get carded
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- February 14, 2007
VA notifying 1.8 million vets of missing data
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- February 13, 200
Newsmaker: Dr. Rajiv Jain
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- February 10, 2007
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Dedicates Newly
Renovated Sleep Lab
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News, January 22, 2007
Secretary of VA Visits VA Pittsburgh Healthcare
System
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News, January 22, 2007
Rajiv Jain, M.D., Appointed Acting Director of VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - January 22,
2007
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Chief Financial
Officer Receives National Financial Management Award
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News, - January 22,
2007
All VA Hospitals To Follow Suit To In Controlling
Spread Of Non-Resistant Superbug
All Headline News Corp -
February 7, 2007
Doctors say fight can be won against drug-resistant
bug
The Associated Press - February 6, 2007
People and Awards - James Baker received the
National Veterans Health Administration
Distinguished Financial Management Award
Pittsburgh Business Times, December 29, 2006 -
January 4, 2007
Dedication & Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Newly
Renovated VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Eye Clinic
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - December 2006,
Rendell targets infections in hospitals
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - January 25, 2007
Kidney Gala ... and the week in review
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - January 22, 2007
Take these steps to reduce MRSA infections, pp. 4-5
Environment of Care Leader Online - January 8, 2007
Chief of staff named acting director for VA
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- January 4, 2007
Mutations Can't Go All The Way In Paget Disease
Medical News Today - January 3, 2007
Dateline Pittsburgh -
People on the Move
(halfway down page under
Government)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - January 1, 2007
2006
James F. Baker, chief financial officer and vice
president of business services at VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System, received the National Veterans
Health Administration Distinguished Financial
Management Award
(bottom of page under
Awards)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - December 31,
2006
Newsmaker -
James F. Baker
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- December 21, 2006
VA chief Nicholson tours Oakland facility
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- December 21, 2006
VA leader outlines computer security measures
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
December 21, 2006
Newsmaker - Michael E.
Moreland
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- December 15, 2006
Heavy work
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- December 9, 2006
Groundbreaking for the H. John Heinz III Progressive
Care Center
(bottom of page under
Also in business
...)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
December 8, 2006
VA offering flu shot clinics
(second article from top)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- December 3, 2006
VA study finds black death rates higher for
pulmonary embolisms
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
December 2, 2006
VA Pittsburgh Leads National Effort
to Prevent Spread of Dangerous Bacteria
U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs VAnguard,
September/October 2006 (page 31)
Blacks die more often of lung clots, study finds
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
December 1, 2006
Fatal blood clot risk higher for black patients
(second article from top)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- December 1, 2006
VA to pitch in on costs related to expansion
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
November 30, 2006
Uptown church receives VA grant to offer safe haven
to homeless vets
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
November 16, 2006
Report: 19,000 PA Hospital Infections In ‘05
KDKA TV2 - November 14, 2006
Officials: VA will cover expansion costs
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- November 2, 2006
VA Pittsburgh's growth has growing impact on
region's economy
Pittsburgh Business Times - October 27, 2006
Veterans turn out for VA clinic open house
The Herald - October 20, 2006
VA plans cause concerns
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- October 16, 2006
VA awards contract for O'Hara residential facility
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
October 13, 2006
VA awards P.J Dick Corp. $34 million contract
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- October 13, 2006
P.J. Dick gets VA Pittsburgh deal
Pittsburgh Business Times -
October 13, 2006
Local health care efforts key part of PBS series
exploring advances in medicine
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
October 4, 2006
Career fair caters to veterans
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - September 14, 2006
Growing VA has some looking warily, Traffic, sewage
areas of concern
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
September 14, 2006
Real Estate Notes - Contracts have been awarded
for the "Early Site Infrastructure" project at the
H.J. Heinz III Progressive Care Center in O'Hara
Township.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - September 11, 2006
Museum exhibit looks at advances in prosthetics
since Civil War
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
August 28, 2006
MRSA infection deadly in Pa.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
August 18, 2006
Local effort
against MRSA is expanding across the country
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
August 18, 2006
Editorial: Veteran
insecurity / Pennsylvanians are left vulnerable by the VA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
August 9, 2006
More VA records go missing
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
August 9, 2006
Theft of VA computer could prompt legislation
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - August 2, 2006
Thousands of local
veterans' data missing
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
August 8, 2006
Remaking
American Medicine- Health Care for the 21st Century
VAPHS MRSA Initiative featured
Airs on PBS at 10 p.m. on Thursday, October 12
Pittsburgh VA System
Leads Superbug Reduction Effort
KDKA TV2 - August 2, 2006
Program aims to cut staph at VA facilities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - August 2, 2006
Pittsburgh to lead battle over bacteria
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - August 2, 2006
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Receives $3.6
Million in Additional Funding 42 New Jobs
Established
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - July 2006
Pathogen lab will close at VA
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - July 19, 2006
Prevention beats curing
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - July 16, 2006
VAPHS $200 Million Construction Project
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - June 2006
Groundbreaking Held for Building to Serve Homeless
Veterans
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - June 2006
VALOR Program Reaches Out to Nursing Students at VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - June 2006
VA
adding services, jobs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
June 30, 2006
VA health system to get $3.6M
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - June 29, 2006
A shoulder to lean on
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 6/8/2006
Some residents oppose VA renovation plan
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 5/4/2006
VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System Physician Honored for Excellence
in Clinical Care
Leadership
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News
Worms dig into cause of migraine
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 3/24/2006
Veterans' battles never end'
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 3/21/2006
I'm not out of
Iraq'
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 3/19/2006
Allegheny General plans liver transplants
Pittsburgh Business Times - 3/9/2006
AGH's liver transplant
plan gets mixed reaction
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 3/14/2006
AGH to start liver
transplant program this summer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 3/9/2006
Want to Quit Smoking? Get Help Via
a Federal Web site
National Cancer Institute (NCI) - 3/9/2006
VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System Details Rare, Innovative Cardiac Procedures
at
University Drive Division
Hospital News - 2/21/2006
Joint Program
Addresses Behavioral Health Needs of Returning U.S. Soldiers
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - 2/2006
35% of returning
troops sought mental health aid, study finds
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 3/1/2006
Getting Around: Is
Pittsburgh becoming 'World's Most Parkable' city?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 2/26/2006
VA upgrade begins
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 2/18/2006
Pittsburgh Newsmaker - Paul Shumaker, Received the Valor Award from the VA
for work performed in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 2/18/2006
VA parking lot project to break ground
Pittsburgh Business Times - 2/17/2006
Pittsburgh Newsmaker - C. Bernie Good, recipient of
the
Mark Walcott Award
for Excellence in
Clinical Leadership
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 2/12/2006
The VHA should be a
model for health care
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 2/7/2006
2005
VAPHS adds new weapon to
Smoking Cessation Program
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System - 12/14/2005
Veterans receive
special 'thanks'
The Herald - 12/8/2005
Region on the verge of a building boom
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 12/4/2005
Hospitals undergo mini boom
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 10/4/2005
VA healthcare builds for future
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 10/4/2005
VA construction to begin soon
Pittsburgh Business Times - 10/3/2005
Public
Notice for our Opioid Program Joint Commission Survey
VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System - 8/12/2005
Special Focus, Top
Physicians, Mohamed Akoad, Liver Transplant Surgeon
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - 7/2005
Special Focus,
Top Physicians, Gerald Goldstein, PhD, ABPP
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - 7/2005
Special Focus, Top Physicians, Chester B. Good, M.D.
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - 7/2005
Special Focus, Top Physicians, Bonnie L. Hubicz, D.O., Medical Director,
H.J. Heinz III, Progressive Care Center
Western Pennsylvania Hospital News - 7/2005
The face of war
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 7/17/2005
State VFW to honor O'Hara volunteer for second time
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 6/9/2005
VA Primary Care Outpatient Clinic dedicated
Uniontown Herald Standard - 5/11/2005
Uniontown VA clinic called blessing
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 5/11/2005
Hospitals try to ward off nasty MRSA bacteria
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 4/23/2005
Fayette County veterans clinic opens
Connellsville Daily Courier - 3/8/2005
Fayette County veterans getting VA clinic of their own
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 3/6/2005
Fayette veterans ready for new clinic
Connellsville Daily
Courier - 3/5/2005
Vets' health center to open Monday
Uniontown Herald Standard
- 3/3/2005
Fayette veterans affairs director resigns for
second time
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 3/1/2005
Another ex-Alcoa manager leads Regional Healthcare
Initiative
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
2/25/2005
Stress of battle haunts soldiers
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 2/23/2005
A remarkable life, a remarkable death
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 2/13/2005
Hoptel takes veterans' care to next level
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 2/2/2005
For wounded GIs, an 'old corpsman' can be big help
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 1/9/2005
Fayette: Vets clinic to open in Uniontown
Connellsville Daily Courier - 1/7/2005
VA ripped over plan for beds at Aspinwall
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 1/9/2005
Local war hero to receive Purple Heart in public
ceremony
Connellsville Daily Courier - 1/6/2005
Fayette County veterans to get clinic by March
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 1/7/2005
Uniontown veterans clinic to open within 60 days
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1/7/2005
Retiree still serves his fellow veterans as
hospital volunteer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 1/5/2005
2004 Jefferson Award winners strive to make a
difference
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
1/2/2005
Act now on vets clinic in Fayette County
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- 1/3/2005
2004
Site
not yet selected for Fayette VA clinic
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
performing more liver transplants
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Lawrence
Walsh: Readers ready to help provide cable to veterans
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Legion
accuses VA of closing 60 beds
The Herald
Hundreds
receive flu shots through VA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh
VA gets shipment of vaccine
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA, state get more flu vaccine,
Walk-in
flu shot clinic for veterans starts tomorrow
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System Adds Video to its Website
Middle Atlantic Perspective
VA
denies beds to be cut in Aspinwall
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cameos
of Caring awards
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Forum:
The solution to high health-care costs is right here
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
CBOC
in Fayette: A step in the right direction
Connellsville Daily Courier
VA
investing $6.5 million in facilities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
Pittsburgh plans 3 local projects worth $6M
Pittsburgh Business Times
Veterans
clinic good news for area
The Valley Independent
Fayette
veterans clinic announced
Uniontown Herald Standard
Fayette
VA facility put on fast track
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Veterans
health clinic to open
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
In new home, Vet Center still heals.
Soldiers get help salving their wounds
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
This
VA project will help us provide superb care
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A hospital that's winning the battle against
bacteria
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Fayette:
Official says clinic could be cure for hospitals
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
An
idea worth pursuing
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Official:
Clinic could be cure for hospitals
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
director touts health clinic's potential savings
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
on Highland Drive loses battle to go on
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
secretary approves plans for hospital closing, renovations
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Veterans
lobby Kerry on arrival at airport
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Highland
Drive VA to close
Pittsburgh Business Times
Fayette
veteran's clinic just a matter of time, officials say
Uniontown Herald Standard
Transplant
chief's N.Y. hospital fined
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Funds near
approval for veterans' hospital
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UPMC
organ plan criticized
Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review
New dispute
erupts on transplant rules
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Specter
listens to concerns about VA hospital closings
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Allegheny
General Hospital surgeons to perform transplants at VA hospital
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Commission
backs closing of Highland Drive VA site
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2003
Pittsburgh
Newsmaker - Barbara A. Becker
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Soldiering On - University of
Pittsburgh's medical education and research relationship with the VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System
University of Pittsburgh
VA
hospital, UPMC going separate ways on transplants
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
pioneering low-cost care
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
'Cootie
Bob' helps ailing veterans cope
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
questions UPMC on liver transplants
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wars'
scandalous aftermath: abandoned veterans
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
About
VA services
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Additional money should help VA
The Herald
Veterans
to protest plan that would close VA hospital
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Hearings
held on overhaul of medical system for veterans
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
East
Liberty veterans hospital gets 10-year lifeline
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Veterans
say Highland facility a lifeline of care
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
restructuring targets Pittsburgh facility
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System Nurse Dedicates 41 Year Career to Caring
for
America's Heroes
Hospital News
Full
house expected for closure hearing
Pittsburgh Business Times
VA
hospital closing is topic of meeting
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
might close its East Liberty hospital, move vets to Oakland
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh
Newsmaker - Rory A. Cooper
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Veterans'
workshop could be prelude to a VA clinic
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Hospitals
seek to stop wheelchair theft
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
center to offer fat-fighting surgery
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
Pittsburgh receives funds to expand, add programs
Pittsburgh Business Times
Achieving
Excellence in Veterans Healthcare - A Balanced Scorecard Approach
National Association of Healthcare Quality
Franklin
Park to dedicate memorial to residents who served nation
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
could close Highland Drive hospital
Pittsburgh Business Times
Closing
is option for Highland VA
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
says report of hospital flaws here was false
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
says agency's Pittsburgh hospitals among its best
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Awarded $16.8 million dollar NIH/VA
Grant to study Acute Renal Failure
Department of Veterans Affairs
Pittsburgh
Newsmaker - Michael E. Moreland
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Computer
prevents medical errors caused by sloppy handwriting
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A
prescription for accuracy
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System Chosen as 1 of 4 VA Kidney Transplant
Centers
in the Nation
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
Pittsburgh: Its All in the Details - Medical Records Help MDs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
Pittsburgh - University of Pittsburgh Selenium/Vitamin E Prostate
Cancer Study - SELECT
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System Honors Retiring Father Ralph
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA
Pittsburgh Healthcare System Honor's Region's Former POW's
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Washington, Greene veterans to get own primary care center
The Observer-Reporter
Teledermatology Program Offers
Patients Care Closer to Home
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Dr.
Adam Gordon: Young physician steers students to help the homeless
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
What
"Mitzvah" Means to H.J. Heinz III Division patients and
families
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sharing
and Caring Boat
Ride
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh
World War II Veteran Remembers...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System offers first new heart operation in United States
Reader's Digest
Housing
for Pittsburgh area Homeless Veterans
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
National News
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2007
Drug-resistant germ escapes
hospital confines
USA Today - April 23, 2007
Surprise: VA hospitals get high marks
Los Angeles Times - April 2, 2007
Doctors say superbug can be controlled
WLS-TV Chicago - February 7, 2007
Pittsburgh's "Getting to Zero" Pilot Program Noted For Curbing Staph Infection
Insurance NewsNet from
U.S. Newswire - January 25, 2007
Battling the Superbug, How to squelch the spread of a dangerous pathogen
AARP Bulletin - January 2007
2006 and earlier
Skin Scourge, MRSA, a treatment-resistant form of
bacteria that spreads through direct contact, is
called a greater threat to public health than SARS
or bird flu.
Boston Globe - August 21, 2006
Telephone Care and Counseling For Smoking Cessation
May Help Smokers Quit
News-Medical.Net
What’s behind the VA hospital turnaround?
NBC News - 3/15/2006
Today's VA hospitals are models of top-notch care
U.S. News & World Report - 7/10/2005
Coming Clean - Op Ed in June 6, 2005 New York Times on infection eradication
New York Times - June 6, 2005
Veterans Get
Reprieve on Health Care; Bush, at the Last Minute,
Kills Plan For Restrictions on Enrollment
The Washington Post -
November 30, 2001
International News
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2004
India
needs awareness on cancer, feels specialist
The Tribune - Chandigarh, India - November 7, 2004
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