Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, June 9, 2011

HCR -- Hospital Infection Rates

By John Ballard (H/T Maggie Mahar Go read her post and learn more. Maybe more than you wanted to know)


Find Hospitals in Your State on the Map from Consumer Reports Below Summary:


Consumer Reports Health (CRH) has just released a report showing wide variation in how likely it is that a hospital patient will pick up a deadly bloodstream infection. Much depends on the culture of the hospital the patient chooses. Does the head of the intensive care unit insist that doctors and nurses all follow a protocol to prevent these infections? Does the hospital administration back him up? The CRH review of more than 1,000 hospitals show that 142 have reduced infections associated with central line catheters to zero. Only two of the 142 are academic medical centers. Why?


In a telephone interview John Santa, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, explains the shocking fact that these infections are, accepted within the �standard of practice.� What would it take to change the standard of practice? �Doctors testifying in a malpractice suit.� I would like to think there an easier solution.


?CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE CONSUMER REPORTS INTERACTIVE MAP.


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  1. Cheryl RoferJune 10, 2011 at 3:48 AM

    Except you gotta subscribe to Consumer Reports to see the ratings.

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  2. John BallardJune 10, 2011 at 5:09 AM

    Sorry about that. That's the only periodical left at our house, so that must be why I was able to make it work.
    I didn't know their snail mail was linked to their online material. It didn't used to be.
    (Pretty cheap on their part if you ask me.)

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