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Hospital malpractice lawsuit sparked by five hour ER wait

A five-hour wait in a hospital emergency room is now the subject of a lawsuit that charges Methodist Hospital in Sacramento and various ER workers with medical malpractice and negligence in delaying

Better sepsis screening needed in ICUs

Hospitals are not adequately screening for sepsis in the ICU. Sepsis, or surgical infection, kills 10 times more than heart attack and blood clots during surgery, according to new research published

Alleged Medicare abuse costs Texas hospital $10M

After allegedly raising costs to receive larger payments from its Medicare outlier program, Houston-based Methodist Hospital has agreed to pay the U.S. government a fee of $10 million to settle the