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Quality data at local hospitals
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Jan Klein 
Mar 30, 2017
The Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium has been on a journey to discover reliable, third-party-verified, quality data to assure our ...
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Taking steps toward healing
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Jon DePaolis 
Feb 08, 2017
For patients about to undergo a percutaneous coronary intervention — an angioplasty, to laypeople — it is important to understand the types of post-su...
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Anuerysm repair shortens recovery time
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Danny Ciamprone 
Jan 26, 2017
What began in the 1990s as an up-and-coming surgical procedure for treating aneurysms has not only become common practice today, but is also proven to...
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Make a plan to speed up surgery recovery
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Joanne K. Clobus 
Apr 01, 2016
If you’re like most people, you’ve gone under the knife at least once in your life. According to a survey by the American College of Surgeons, the ave...
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Is it time to see a geriatrician?
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John O'Brien 
Nov 30, 2015
As the baby boomer generation ages, the number of Americans age 65 and older is increasing dramatically. According to U.S. Census figures, the nation’...
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