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Monday, July 6, 2009
To save '$1 trillion' for healthcare reform, clean hospitals: O'Neill

While Obama's trying to fix the nation's healthcare system, reformers ought to be copying University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Richard Shannon and others who have found ways to bring down infection rates, medical errors, ventilator pneumonia, catheter contamination, fall rates, and other basic block-and-tackle hospital problems, writes former US Treasury Sec. Paul O'Neill in NYTimes. Sounds basic.

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Joseph N. DiStefano writes this blog to feed his PhillyDeals column, which is printed in the business pages of The Philadelphia Inquirer every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Joe has worked at the Inquirer, mostly, since 1988. He has also written for Bloomberg and Gannett, authored the book Comcasted, majored in economics at Penn, and fathered six children. Reach Joe at 215-854-5194 and JoeD@phillynews.com

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