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The hospitals involved in a controversy in recent years involving the fraudulent recruiting of indigent patients will close. Hospital owner Pacific Health Corp. (PHC) in Tustin, CA, announced recently that it will close its three remaining Southern California hospitals.
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A Colorado surgeon is under investigation for 14 robotic surgeries with poor outcomes or adverse events, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating what might be an unexpectedly high rate of problems with surgical robotics.
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The constant beeping of alarms and an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices such as ventilators, blood pressure monitors and ECG (electrocardiogram) machines is creating alarm fatigue that puts hospital patients at serious risk, according to a Sentinel Event Alert issued recently by The Joint Commission (TJC).
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Insurance brokers can be a key resource for hospitals, but risk managers often end up working with a broker for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes the broker has been with the organization for years with no one questioning the relationship, for example.
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A female doctor claimed to have suffered years of gender discrimination from a hospitals chief of surgery.
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If you are using an electronic health record (EHR) provided by EHRMagic in Santa Fe Springs, CA, you have a problem.
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Maximizing patient safety is the top priority for hospital C-suite executives and risk managers in the United States, but the lack of teamwork, negative culture, and poor communication will present barriers to patient safety in the future, according to a survey commissioned by American International Group (AIG) in New York City.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a rule that revises the exception, known as the Stark Exception, to the federal physician self-referral prohibition (the Stark Law) for certain arrangements involving the donation of electronic health record (EHR) items and services to physicians or other allied health providers.
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Leveraging knowledge gained from previous initiatives, including an Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)/Ascension Health/Premier collaboration, hospitals in the Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative (PPSI) use two methods to create high-reliability healthcare teams: increased adherence to evidence-based care bundles, and enhanced communication and teamwork.
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Healthcare giant HCA, based in Nashville, TN, must pay a Kansas City, MO, charitable foundation $162 million and undergo extensive auditing after a judge found that the for-profit hospital operator broke key agreements regarding charity care and capital expenditures in its billion-dollar purchase of hospitals from Health Midwest in 2002.
