california hospitals
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...
CA lawmakers push for tougher plastic surgery rules
Driven in part by the death of the mother of hip-hop star Kanye West, who was getting liposuction and breast implant surgery, California physicians and lawmakers are pushing to tighten up regulation... Read more...
CA fines 13 hospitals for placing patients at risk
The California Department of Public Health has disciplined 13 hospitals for placing patients at risk of serious injury or death, fining each $25,000. The agency, which has issued 39 citations since... Read more...
LA approves fines for patient dumping
It looks like Los Angeles is going to approve fines for hospitals that engage in what it defines as patient dumping. The city council has given preliminary approval to a measure under which hospitals... Read more...
More UCLA staffers cited for record snooping
California regulators have identified an additional 14 staffers connected with UCLA Medical Center who improperly viewed celebrity medical records. This brings the total number of current and former... Read more...
FDA says hospitals may still have recalled heparin
Despite widespread publicity about heparin problems, several California hospitals were found to still have recalled heparin products in their supply chains, suggesting that the problem could still be... Read more...
Los Angeles investigates another patient dumping case
Los Angeles city prosecutors have begun investigating another alleged patient dumping incident, this time a Costa Mesa hospital, which allegedly took a mentally ill man 42 miles to the city's Skid... Read more...
Coalition files suit to block CA Medi-Cal cuts
Nobody's happy when the state cuts reimbursement rates for a program that already doesn't pay so well. But when California threatened to cut rates 10 percent for Medi-Cal, its program for the poor, a... Read more...
UCLA staffer indicted for sharing patient information
In a rare instance of prosecution for medical records disclosure, a former administrative staffer at UCLA Medical Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of selling celebrity... Read more...
