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A quick guide to the federal quality ratings doled out to Pittsburgh-area hospitals
Consumers can now look up any hospital in the nation and quickly see how they rate on a simple five-star quality system.
And when you zero in on Pittsburgh, you will see that none of the area hospitals rated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [CMS] got the top-star rating.
Posted inOn the beat, posts
PublicSource reporters honored in state, national journalism contests
In-depth and investigative projects by the staff of PublicSource have won and have been named among finalists in state and national journalism contests.
The Troubled Kids, Powerful Drugs series about the alarming amount of psychotropics prescribed to juveniles in state-run youth correctional facilities is a finalist for a Livingston Award.
Posted inHEALTH, Heroin: Riding the Rush, On the beat, posts
If there’s one benefit from the opioid crisis, it’s this
One out of every 11 organ donors is a person who has died from a drug overdose.
This statistic is according to new government data reported by The Washington Post.
The trend is a combination of rising drug-related deaths and efforts by advocates to spread the message of organ donation to more communities, even marginalized ones, according to the article.
Posted inHEALTH, On the beat, posts
Star ratings for hospitals are easy to understand, but are they too simple to be accurate?
Health The government is trying to hand out more star ratings in the healthcare world, and it’s causing drama.
Posted inEDUCATION, On the beat, posts
High school graduates aren’t feeling the economic recovery
It seems like everyone is going to college these days. And then more college, just packing on the degrees. But that’s not really the case.
Posted inENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, On the beat, posts
The world’s freshwater would’ve been gone 15 years ago if other countries consumed meat like the U.S.
People are becoming more conscientious about the food they eat, but most shoppers are simply looking for meats that are free from antibiotics and hormones and raised in humane conditions. The majority of people aren’t thinking of the amount of water that was used to produce their steaks.
Posted inEquity, HEALTH, On the beat, posts
Drug companies pony up in illegal marketing cases, but critics wonder if penalties are enough
Big Pharma has written more than $30 billion in checks in the last 10 years to resolve government allegations of illegal marketing practices, according to statistics compiled by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen. Nine drug manufacturers each forked over at least $900 million from 2006 through 2015.
Posted inHEALTH, On the beat, posts, PUBLIC SAFETY, Troubled kids, powerful drugs
PA lawmakers troubled by prescribing to state’s foster, delinquent youth
Juvenile justice experts described to a panel of lawmakers Friday the potential dangers pyschotropic medications pose to vulnerable youth.
They didn’t stop at explaining the problem either.
With a dozen lawmakers in one room for the third-annual Children & Youth Disability & Mental Health Summit, they made pleas for additional funding, data collection and transparency.
Posted inDATA, DEVELOP PGH, ECONOMY & HOUSING, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, Equity, HEALTH, On the beat, posts, PUBLIC SAFETY
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We’ve made it a habit to provide readers with a few ways to take action after reading our in-depth and investigative stories on issues of criminal justice, the environment, politics and health.
