7/18/05 — "Beyond Safety" (from U.S. News & World Report)
Everybody wants a safe hospital, with few potential patient-killing errors...But safety and basic quality aren't enough for patients who need complicated surgery. They need the expertise available only at a handful of medical centers.

7/16/05 — "Surgery quality is targeted" (from the Detroit Free Press)
In their latest quality-improvement program, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the University of Michigan are recruiting hospitals and surgeons for the program to collect data on weight-loss, or bariatric, surgeries with the goal of identifying the best practices and sharing them with each other.