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Bankruptcy not the only risk when going bare
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Elective policy aims to cut pre-39 week deliveries
This is a portion of the Elective Delivery Policy use at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville to minimize unnecessary deliveries before 39 weeks gestation: -
Legal Review & Commentary: Failure to timely perform a cesarean section results in severe brain injury, $55 million award
News: A 32-year-old woman presented to the hospital following a planned home delivery with the assistance of a midwife. -
287 infants abducted since ‘83 Many are from mom’s room
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Going bare is like ‘playing Russian roulette’
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BYOD: It’s not a party invite, but a hospital problem
Providers are increasingly faced with the dilemma of whether to ban all personal electronic devices such as iPads and BlackBerrys in patient care areas or allow clinicians to use them. -
Limit access, urge parents not to linger after discharge
Limiting access to hospital units is one strategy for reducing the risk of abductions and other threats to children, notes Dan Yaross, director of security at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Cincinnati. -
Do you use Code Pink for a missing older child?
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More hospitals ‘going bare,’ taking big gamble on med mal
With a tough economy and mounting pressures on healthcare providers, more hospitals are going bare and foregoing medical malpractice insurance coverage in the hopes that they can cover any judgment on their own. -
Board members, C-level execs at risk from going bare