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part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, was recently invited to
participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pediatric Heart
Network.
Researchers will conduct clinical trials to find the best treatment
methods for children suffering from heart conditions that may result in heart
failure.
Brenner Children 's Hospital has joined the network for the next two years
and hopes to renew for another five, Covitz said.com . Joseph's Hospital in downtown St. Joseph's Hospital, St.

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Brenner Children's Hospital will join 10 other children's hospitals
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They will test both medications and surgical interventions to find
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hospitals that demonstrate superior clinical outcomes, patient safety,
operational and financial performance, and service to the community. There were a total of 20
winners in the medium community hospital category, and 25 in the teaching
hospital category . John's Hospital, Woodwinds Health Campus
and Bethesda Rehabilitation Hospital. Other services include clinics, senior
care centers, rehabilitation facilities, hospice, home care, outpatient
surgery centers and a variety of other health facilities and programs.

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HealthEast Care System is a community-focused, non-profit health care
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Brenner Children's was named one of the top 30
best children's hospitals in the nation by Child magazine.
They then sum each hospital's performance-measure ranking to arrive at a total
ranking for the hospital.

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Brenner Children's Hospital will conduct four clinical
trials in 2005 as part of their participation in the network.
"By conducting clinical trials, we are able to offer our patients the very
latest treatment advances, placing them on the road to recovery with better
outcomes," said Covitz.
This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise(TM).

Two HealthEast Care System Hospitals Named in Top 100 Hospitals in the Nation

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About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: Wake Forest Baptist
is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital,
Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Brenner Children's Hospital. It
is licensed to operate 1,282 acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatry and long-
term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals"
by U . John's third time on this prestigious
list, and St. The
Solucient Center for Healthcare Improvement performs an annual objective
statistical analysis of publicly available data from more than 6,000 acute
care and specialty hospitals in the United States. John's Hospital was
assigned to the Medium Community Hospital category (100 to 249 beds), and St.

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"This allows us to merge resources with other prestigious academic medical
centers and find ways to improve care for children with heart problems . For more
information, visit http://www. The hospitals with the best total ranking in each
comparison group were selected as the benchmarks.

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