Hospitals Chafe Under Medicare’s New Payment Rule For Off-Campus Clinics By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, KHN News. Eric Lewis’ plans for expansion have derailed. As chief executive officer of Olympic Medical Center, he oversees efforts to provide care… Read More
From the Patient Safety Network, Jan 2019. Adverse Drug Event (ADE) is an injury that occurs as a result of medication error. Medication errors need to be addressed for improving patient safety, as there is… 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
“Drug-Induced/Iatrogenic Dementia: A Perfect Crime” By all accounts, the woman, in her late 60s, appeared to have severe dementia. She was largely incoherent. Her short-term memory was terrible. She couldn’t focus on questions that medical… Read More
By Michelle Andrews, KHN News. Three years ago, Corey Walsh, who was in a relationship with a man who was HIV-positive, got a prescription for Truvada, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration… Read More
One of the nation’s 10 best children’s hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. By Katelyn Newman, US News. A Dangerous type of mold has killed one patient and infected five more at Seattle Children’s… Read More
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle. Another patient recently died at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency center without receiving timely treatment, system officials revealed Friday, the fourth death in the Texas Medical Center in the last eight months… Read More
By Steven I Weissman. For Center for Health Journalism. I am going public to reveal the astonishing truth. There is a simple way to instantly, with ease, end our nation’s health cost misery! When the… Read More
By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times. Infants are sometimes treated for gastroesophageal reflux with acid-suppressing medicines, but a new study suggests that they may increase the risk for bone fracture later in childhood. Researchers studied… Read More
By MARIA CASTELLUCCI, Modern Healthcare, June 28, 2019. About a quarter of hospitals fail to meet the Leapfrog Group’s standards in addressing serious patient harm events should they occur, according to a new report…. Read More