Hospitals

OGDEN — Ogden Regional Medical Center and McKay-Dee Hospital have been named among the top 100 hospitals in the nation in their respective categories.

Thomson Reuters, a business data provider, released its annual study Tuesday identifying the top U.S. hospitals based on overall organizational performance. The two Ogden-based hospitals were the only ones in the state to receive the Top 100 Hospital awards.

Ogden Regional was listed as one of the top 100 medium community hospitals while McKay-Dee was listed as one of the top 100 teaching hospitals.

SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a set of calculus equations to make it easier for doctors to save Tylenol overdose patients by quickly estimating how much painkiller they took, when they consumed it and whether they will require a liver transplant to survive.

ST. LOUIS — A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it’s contributing to the closure of some burn units.

So-called shake-and-bake meth is produced by combining raw, unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle. But if the person mixing the noxious brew makes the slightest error, such as removing the cap too soon or accidentally perforating the plastic, the concoction can explode, searing flesh and causing permanent disfigurement, blindness or even death.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A new hospital comparison report released this week by the Utah Department of Health shows Top of Utah hospitals are doing better overall than the rest of the nation in several areas of care.

BOUNTIFUL -- Rand Kerr says he has done little, but together with the hard work of his employees at Lakeview Hospital, they have accomplished a lot.

CHICAGO -- The nation's worst hospitals treat twice the proportion of elderly black patients and poor patients than the best hospitals, and their patients are more likely to die of heart attacks and pneumonia, new research shows.