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Featured Stories, 2007
| Baystate Medical Center Physicians Perform World's First Completely Incisionless Stapled Anastomosis |
| Heralding the dawn of a new age in surgical technology, a team of Baystate Medical Center physicians announced July 12 they have performed the world's first reported stapled NOTES™ cyst-gastrostomy to successfully treat and save the life of a seriously ill patient who had been hospitalized for months with a chronic infected pancreatic pseudocyst, without the need for an abdominal incision. |
| NSMC Uses Nature to Help Patients Heal |
| North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) Union Hospital in Lynn has opened a new patient botanical area. |
| Hallmark Health's Melrose-Wakefield Hospital Opens First US Baby Café |
| A baby café isn't a chic boutique where only infants get service. Well, maybe in a way it is. |
| Winchester Hospital Donates Asthma Equipment to Public Schools |
| As part of its Community Hospital Asthma Management Program (CHAMP), Winchester Hospital donated a pulse oximeter to each of Winchester's seven public schools. |
| Hallmark Health Systems: Posting Staffing Plans Gave New Perspectives |
| Ask Joan Vitello. PhD, FAAN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Hallmark Health Systems, a community-based system made up of Lawrence Memorial in Medford and Melrose-Wakefield hospitals, what impact Patients First has had and she will tell you the public posting of staffing plans have transformed hospital procedures and staff planning. |
| Cambridge Health Alliance: Striving for the Best in Patient Care |
| Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) has high ambitions for quality for its network of three hospitals, Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital, and Whidden Memorial Hospital, the Cambridge Public Health Department, the Network Health Plan, and more than 20 primary care practices. |
| Cooley Dickinson Hospital: Quality Health Care is No Accident |
| It's no accident that during the last four years, Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) in Northampton has built upon an already solid reputation in the Pioneer Valley for excellence in health care. |
| Emerson Pediatric Kit Prepares Children For Hospitalizations |
| Emerson Hospital in Concord has a pediatric intervention team that is using a new interactive DVD and lending kit to familiarize young children with hospitals. |
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