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SPOTLIGHT: Low Medicare reimbursement rates hit IA, CA hospitals
Low Medicare reimbursement rates are a sore spot for many providers, but they seem to be a particular issue for hospitals in Iowa and California, according to a new report. Iowa hospitals, for... Read more...
CA hospitals risk earthquake damage
Now here's a scary statistic: As many as half of California hospital facilities are at risk for earthquake damage--or even collapse--and won't meet state construction requirements, due largely to... Read more...
CA was aware of problems at hospital doing questionable admissions
Earlier this month, a group of California hospitals made national headlines when the news broke that they'd allegedly been recruiting and admitting homeless patients and giving them questionable... Read more...
CA hospitals disclose more than 1000 medical harm cases
California hospitals have made their first official disclosures of never events occurring in their facilities, a step required under a state law enacted in 2006. The disclosures, which cover the... Read more...
Los Angeles neighborhood suffers for lack of medical care
When a hospital serving the poor closes, big ripple effects happen. When Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was shut down because of egregious problems with care it delivered, it may have been... Read more...
CA hospital agrees to $1M patient dumping settlement
One of several Los Angeles hospitals caught up in a patient-dumping scandal has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it dumped a paraplegic man on the city's Skid Row in a hospital gown... Read more...
Prime Healthcare picks up three Tenet facilities
A growing but controversial hospital chain has agreed to acquire three Tenet hospitals, expanding its network of facilities that reject all forms of managed care contracts. Hospitals included in the... Read more...
Japanese gang figures get liver transplants from UCLA
A new investigation by a daily newspaper has found that a top Japanese crime figure and three other men affiliated with Japanese organize crime groups received liver transplants from Los... Read more...
CA hospital forced to stop cardiac surgeries due to infections
A Fresno hospital has been forced to stop performing open-heart surgeries while state public health authorities investigate a new surge in post-operative infections. Last year, the CDC investigated... Read more...
Doctor sues CA hospital, claiming retaliation for state report
An obstetrician and gynecologist has sued a California hospital, claiming his former bosses there are giving him bad recommendations in retaliation for his filing a complaint about conditions there.... Read more...
