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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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The five children of a 65-year old woman settled a wrongful death suit against a dialysis clinic.
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Twenty-five years of U.S. medical malpractice claim payouts show that diagnostic errors accounted for the largest fraction of claims, the most severe patient harm, and the highest total of penalty payouts, according to recent research from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
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Johns Hopkins researchers say they have uncovered an unintended consequence of the move in recent years to reduce the legendarily long and onerous work hours of interns. Shorter work hours can increase the risks of patient handoff, they say.
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CDCs work-based program better than meds.
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Count everyone in hospital for one day
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There arent enough healthy choices
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Faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine are set to launch a community paramedicine program aimed at preventing repeat hospital and ED visits for acute exacerbations of asthma in children.
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The University of Michigan Health System is developing clinical programming and deploying specially trained care managers as part of an initiative aimed at eliminating unnecessary hospital admissions.