Pulse

Hotel Management

By Suzy Frisch

An orthopedic group is experimenting with having surgery patients recover in a hotel.

 

Not Your Grandmother’s Auxiliary

By Lisa Harden

The role of the hospital volunteer has expanded since the candy striper’s day.

 

Body and Soul

By Trout Lowen

As members of the health care team, hospital chaplains tend to the spirit.

 

Book Review

Public Service

Author David Ansell shares lessons from Chicago’s Cook County Hospital about working with the underserved and the deficiencies of the U.S. health care system.

By Charles R. Meyer, M.D.

 

End Notes

Operation

By Mina Le, M.D.

 

Table of Contents | September 2011

Cover Story

Slowing the Revolving Door

Minnesota’s hospitals are leading the way in reducing preventable readmissions.

By Kate Ledger

 

Face to Face

The Futurist

A conversation with Minnesota’s chief hospital executive.

 

Perspective

A Turning Point

An experience in the ICU leads a medical student to shift her focus.

By Rachel Sang, M.D.

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

Critical Access Hospitals: Hubs for Rural Health Care

By Mark Schoenbaum, M.S.W.
 

The Role of the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital

By Rahul Koranne, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P.
 

Hyperbaric Oxygen for Treatment of Problem Wounds

By Cheryl Adkinson, M.D.
 

Philanthropy and Scientific Medicine: The History of the University of Minnesota’s Cancer Institute 

By Aimee Slaughter and John H. Kersey, M.D.

 

Editor's Note

Reinventing the “Sick House”

 

Viewpoint

A Fond Farewell

 

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