Rachel Gotbaum

Posts by Rachel Gotbaum

Hospitals

Top Boston hospital begins tackling readmissions problem

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a highly regarded teaching hospital in Boston, but in 2012, the hospital found out it had one of the highest rates of readmissions among Medicare patients in the country. That meant federal fines of more than $1 million—and a lot of soul searching for the staff, says Dr. Julius […]

Kaiser

Cancer rehab begins to bridge a gap for patients

It was her own experience with debilitating side effects after cancer treatment that led Dr. Julie Silver to realize there is a huge gap in care that keeps cancer patients from getting rehabilitation services. Silver was 38 in 2003 when she w...