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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
Gazette.
Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
Scott Allen Alice Dembner Carey Goldberg Liz Kowalczyk Stephen Smith Colin Nickerson Beth Daley Karen Weintraub, Deputy Health and Science Editor, and Gideon Gil, Health and Science Editor. Short White Coat blogger Ishani Ganguli  |
« Tufts-NEMC workers suspended for fake pipe bomb | Main | In case you missed it over the weekend: retired caregivers step in, a day at Newton-Wellesley, questions about Celebrex, help at home for mentally ill kids, DPH blasts Tufts obesity plan » Friday, February 23, 2007Mass. General president swings backBy Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital, jumped into the fray yesterday over the blog started by his competitor, Paul Levy, chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Levy has posted on his website month-by-month hospital-acquired infection rates for patients at his hospital, and challenged other hospitals to publicize their rates as well, according to a story in today's Globe. Slavin confirmed that Mass. General will not publicize its infection rates, at least not until the state develops a standardized approach to measurement that has been embraced by the medical community. But he made it clear his hospital has nothing to hide: "Our internal data shows our numbers are lower than Beth Israel's," he said. "There are at least two ways to compete in health care, provide great care, do great research and excel at teaching -- that's the way we choose to do it," Slavin said. "The other way is to criticize one's competitors. That's not the method we choose to employ." Posted by Karen Weintraub at 04:51 PM
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