New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine 1-2-3 in medicare study. (News Watch: New Hampshire).(Brief Article)

Policy & Practice of Public Human Services, March, 2003

Foster's Daily Democrat

New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine have retained their first, second, and third ranking respectively in the quality of care they provide to Medicare patients. A recent study updates a government report on patients treated in 1998-99. The new figures cover 2000-01. "New Hampshire seniors should be comforted by the fact that they are receiving the highest quality care from their physicians and hospitals," Dr. Albee Budnitz, president of the New Hampshire Medical Society, told Foster's Daily Democrat. Vermont's high score was in large part due to "superb clinicians, nurses, and doctors who are attracted here by the academic medical centers and the quality of life," Dr. John Brumsted, chief medical officer at Fletcher Allen Health Care...

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