Low-key, low-cost 'education' for physicians sparks savings

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Cost savings in hospital care can be achieved without sacrificing quality of care by educating physicians. Three surveys reveal that physicians respond better to low-key programs including lectures and pamphlets than to high-pressure tactics such as monitoring by cost experts. University of Michigan Medical School associate dean John Billi, who directed the three studies in academic hospitals, says doctors in community hospitals should be studied next.

Physicians, Medical professions, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Study and teaching, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs

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Family designs

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Health care facility architect Lloyd Landow has worked for his father and his children work for him. Landow and Landow tries to build its facilities with the needs of staff, visitors and patients considered. Using color and proportion, the Landows try to make these facilities more habitable. Special designs in nursing homes give the effect of porches rather than long, sterile hallways.

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, Nonresidential construction, not elsewhere classified, Hospital-Health Facilities, Marketing, Health facilities, Design and construction, Architectural firms, Architectural services, Health facilities construction, Landow and Landow Architects

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Sister act

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Sister Germaine Fritz, board chair of Kingston, NY's Benedictine Hospital, is also prioress of the St. Walburga Monastery's Benedictine Sisters and a recording artist. She sings, along with classical vocalist Emily Van Evera, on 'Vision: The Music of Hildegard Von Bingen.' Hildegrad, who lived from 1098 to 1179, was an abbess, mystic, mathematician and composer of liturgical chants.

Entertainers & entertainment groups, Musical Groups and Artists, Religious organizations, Musical Artists, Private Hospitals, Roman Catholic Organizations, Officials and employees, Health care industry, Hospitals, Biography, Personalities, Singers, Musicians, Nuns, Germaine Fritz, Sister, Hildegard, Saint, Saint

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