Hospital Patients

By John Commins, Healthleaders Media, September 30, 2019. New infection sources have emerged for people with heart disease, and defective or artificial heart valves. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers Robert… Read More

By Melissa Bailey, The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2019. Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days… Read More

By Madeline Farber | Fox News, Oct. 11, 2019. A nurse is suing Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., claiming she was retaliated against after reporting that some of her colleagues working the night shift gave… Read More

By Misha Valencia, Healthline. Aug. 30, 2019. Under any other circumstances, it would be a crime. So why is this the exception? When Ashley Weitz went to the emergency room at a local hospital in… Read More

By Judith Graham, KHN News. The Leapfrog Group, an independent national health care watchdog organization, today released Safety In Numbers: The Leapfrog Group’s Report on High-Risk Surgeries Performed at American Hospitals. The report analyzes eight high-risk procedures to… Read More

By Stephanie Nebehay, for Health News. Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said… Read More

Hospital Infections and Drug Resistant Germs – A Public Health Threat Cloaked in a Climate of Secrecy In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually and recent estimates from researchers at Washington… Read More

By Lisa Rapaport, for Reuters Health. Hospital medication shortages are forcing clinicians to decide which patients receive needed medications and which do not. More than two-thirds of pharmacists in U.S. hospitals deal with at least… Read More

I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned. By Sarah Kliff, for Vox. A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eye drops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the… Read More