• Quality Measure Reports Temporarily Suspended
• Potential Scams Strike Ohio Hospital
• Legislature Wraps Up for Summer
• CMS Goes Forward With “75% Rule”
• Hospitals Awarded for Efforts to Keep Patients, Employees Safe
• Health Care Quality Bill Introduced to Senate
• Nonprofit Panel Issues Final Report
• Hospitals Lead the Way

Week of July 11, 2005

• Feedback Needed on Hospital Component of State Trauma Plan (Monday)

• Medicare Ruling Could Affect Hundreds of Hospitals (Tuesday)
• SEIU, Sykes Dig into BWC Payments to Hospitals (Wednesday)
• Tobacco Foundation Forms Unique Partnership with Insurance Companies (Wednesday)
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approves Spending Bill (Thursday)
• Update Issued on 2005 Influenza Vaccine (Thursday)
• HHS Names Medicaid Commission Members (Friday)
• Year’s First Human West Nile Case Found (Friday)

Week of July 18, 2005

• Hospitals Encouraged to Participate In Tobacco Survey (Monday)

• Federal Patient Safety Bill Passes House Committee (Tuesday)
• Medicare 2006 Outpatient Hospital Payment Rate Proposal Out (Wednesday)
• CDC Issues Flu Vaccine Recommendations (Thursday)
• Say Goodbye to Green Jell-O: More Hospitals Offer Patients Star Treatment (Friday)