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Hundreds of radiation overdoses went undetected for 18 months
It took 18 months before someone at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles noticed that hundreds of patients had received more than eight times the normal dose of radiation. The error was... Read more...
Death rates spike in Sacramento County EDs
It's a fact of life that people die in emergency departments, of course. But in Sacramento County, CA, it seems they're dying at higher rates than in virtually any other county in the state.... Read more...
NY hospital worker charged with massive file theft
A New York hospital employee was charged this weekend with stealing almost 50,000 patient files and selling some of them. The worker, patient admissions representative Dwight McPherson, was accused... Read more...
GA may approve sweeping CON changes
Georgia seems well on its way to approving a new bill that would remove most of the state's Certificate of Need restrictions. The state House of Representatives is considering a measure, championed... Read more...
NV hospital hired clinics accused of lax practices
An area medical center is coming under fire to defend a $1 million contract with a group of clinics now under investigation for potentially widespread infection control failures. The contract has... Read more...
Case study: Tx. hospital 'cocoons' to contain whooping cough
Hoping to contain what is becoming an epidemic of whooping cough, Houston, Tx.-based Texas Children's Hospital has launched a program designed to contain the infection by immunizing family members.... Read more...
Another LA hospital sued for patient dumping
A Los Angeles-area hospital has been sued by civil rights attorneys over the alleged dumping of... Read more...
Mentally ill wait days in Georgia EDs
It's a solution that doesn't work well for anybody. In Georgia, patients with acute mental illness are waiting up to three days in hospital emergency departments before being admitted to state mental... Read more...
U of Pittsburgh gets DOJ information request
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has just disclosed that it got a request for competitive information last summer from the U.S. Department of Justice. The request, which didn't name any... Read more...
Hospital, state senator targets of federal investigation
This week, federal investigators are searching the home and legislative offices of New Jersey state Sen. Joseph Coniglio (D) as part of a ongoing corruption investigation. In pursuing the... Read more...
