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MN hospital cited after disturbed ED patient gets Tasered
When the staff at Northfield (Mn.) City Hospital's emergency believed that a disturbed patient was about to become violent, they called the local police, as their facility didn't have the security Read more...
Colonoscopies increase in New York City
A new study suggests that the number of New York City residents 50 and older who have had colonoscopies has risen sharply--by about 50 percent--over the last five years. The survey, which was Read more...
Tenet finally back on track
Things seem to be looking up for once beleaguered Tenet Healthcare these days. After years of financial and legal troubles, the company's Read more...
RI lawmakers propose medical error tracking system
Rhode Island lawmakers have introduced a bill that would create a system tracking medical mistakes and near misses, spurred in part by incidents in which brain surgeons at Rhode Island Hospital Read more...
HHS OKs MI infection checklists
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections has ruled that hospitals in Michigan can keep using checklists to manage infection risks. The checklists, which Read more...
PA hospitals won't charge for 'never events'
Pennsylvania's hospitals said yesterday that they won't charge for care related to serious medical mistakes that occur during an inpatient stay at an acute care hospital, such as wrong-body-part Read more...
Validity problems may delay SC infection reports
Hospitals in South Carolina may not release their reports of infection rates to the public in February 2008, as promised. Though the hospitals are complying with 2006 state law that requires all Read more...
Untreated patient dies of heart attack in CA hospital
It's now official that a 33-year-old man who died in a Los Angeles medical center died because his heart attack wasn't diagnosed, despite his spending three hours in its emergency department. A Read more...
RI hospital faces third fine for wrong-side brain surgery
What should be a never event seems to be a "sometimes" event at one Rhode Island facility. Rhode Island Hospital has just been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after a Read more...
WA governor wants MRSA reporting
Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) is asking the state's medical laboratories to begin reporting when they detect cases of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Gov. Gregoire has Read more...
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