| New OB wing heralds first babies to arrive | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 7:00:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Boy number one was sleepy, tucked away in pleasant dreams. Being the first one to arrive was exhausting work, apparently. Boy number two was perky; as child number seven in the family, being on the alert surely will be a helpful trait. And baby number three, the only girl of the bunch? She played the diva, letting company know when she'd had her fill of all the strangers in the room. They were the first babies officially to be born in Piedmont Fayette Hospital's brand new maternity wing. Two of the babies have hospital ties: baby boy number one, Jeremiah Kristian James, was born to Piedmont Fayette nurse Kristi McFadden-James and her husband, Reginald James of Jonesboro. Baby boy number two, Joseph Alfred Goza, was born to doctors John and Mary Sue Goza, the former who is a surgeon at the hospital and the latter who is a consultant for the hospital having previously served as an ER doc before heading up a household of what has become seven children.... | |
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| | | Cesarean spike drives up Medicaid costs | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 4:57:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- About one-quarter of all children born in the United States -- over 1 million -- are delivered by Cesarean section, a new report says. That marks a 38 percent increase from 1997, when about a fifth of all American babies were delivered by Cesarean, the study by Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found. Cesarean section, or C-Section as it is commonly called, is an abdominal procedure that involves making an incision in the mother's abdomen and uterus to deliver her child. The rise was accompanied by a 60 percent decline in the rate of women giving birth vaginally after having a previous child born via C-section, and conversely, by a 33 percent rise in the rate of repeat C-sections.... | |
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| | | Commission evaluates state hospitals | | Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:59:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Looking for information on what your local hospital charges for typical medical care services, the number of child birth deliveries it performs annually, or what its rate is for providing discharge instructions for heart failure patients? You may be just a mouse-click away. The Maryland Health Care Commission has released an Internet-based Hospital Performance Evaluation Guide of the states 47 acute care hospitals, including Garrett Memorial Hospital and the Western Maryland Health Systems Memorial and Sacred Heart campuses. Memorial scored well under treatment for heart failure patients in the study, which reported the hospital performed recommended heart failure tests and distributed recommended medications for its patients 100 percent of the time. Memorial also reached 100 percent for providing counseling on tobacco cessation with pneumonia patients, with Sacred Heart providing advice 93 percent of the time.... | |
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