Is the doctor you chose the one holding the scalpel? Maybe not. You have a legal right to informed consent, but failure to adequately and properly inform the patient of who will be performing an… Read More
By Alia Paavola, Beckers Hospital Review, February 12th, 2020. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and one of its hospitals in Palm Springs, Calif., will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly charged Medicare for implanting unnecessary… Read More
By Ayla Ellison, Beckers Hospital Review, February 14th, 2020. A patient who asks a clinician to stop a procedure and it’s feasible to do so can sue for battery if medical staff continue with the treatment,… Read More
By Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, May 15, 2019. Patients’ risk of dying from medical mistakes, deadly infections and safety lapses have gotten much worse at the lowest ranked U.S. hospitals, underscoring Americans’ need to check… Read More
By John Commins, Healthleaders Media, September 30, 2019. New infection sources have emerged for people with heart disease, and defective or artificial heart valves. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers Robert… Read More
By Melissa Bailey, The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2019. > APRA Summary: Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility.” One-third of patients 70 and older… Read More
By Madeline Farber | Fox News, Oct. 11, 2019. A nurse is suing Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., claiming she was retaliated against after reporting that some of her colleagues working the night shift gave… Read More
By Misha Valencia, Healthline. Aug. 30, 2019. Under any other circumstances, it would be a crime. So why is this the exception? When Ashley Weitz went to the emergency room at a local hospital in… Read More
By Judith Graham, KHN News. The Leapfrog Group, an independent national health care watchdog organization, today released Safety In Numbers: The Leapfrog Group’s Report on High-Risk Surgeries Performed at American Hospitals. The report analyzes eight high-risk procedures to… Read More
By Stephanie Nebehay, for Health News. Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said… Read More