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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
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Pacific Health, related entities agree to $16.5 million for kickbacks
The United States has entered into a settlement agreement with Pacific Health Corp. (PHC) and related entities in which they agreed to pay the government and the state of California $16.5 million for allegedly engaging in an illegal kickback scheme in Los Angeles, the Justice Department announced recently. -
Checklist helps hospital curtail early c-sections
Elective deliveries before 39 weeks, often performed as a convenience to the patient or the physician, have long been known to threaten patient safety and risk hospital liability. One hospital is reporting great success with a checklist and firm refusal to permit early deliveries without a good reason.