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NewsMore than a million Rx forms missing from hospitals
Following a July New York state report that 1.4 million blank prescription forms went missing, another 14,000 prescription forms were stolen at an unnamed downstate hospital in New York, reported Read more...
Hospitals closings draw congressional fire
With an eye on patients, financial management, and jobs, Congress has recently taken an active role in hospital closings. For example, the planned Sept. 1 closure of Peninsula Hospital in Queens, Read more...
Hospital cited for continuing unshielded X-rays on babies
An inspection at a Brooklyn hospital, the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, last month found that the facility was continuing to perform inappropriate full body X-rays on Read more...
NY hospitals graded on infection levels
The New York State Department of Health has issued its first in what will be annual reports on hospital infection rates. The report, which is mandated by a 2005 law, found that the state's hospitals Read more...
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