Hospital Patients
Hospitals Are Producing an ‘Epidemic of Immobility’ in Elderly Patients
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
Nurses at New Jersey Hospital Gave Benadryl to Patients to Make Them Sleep, Lighten Workload
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
Pelvic Exams Being Performed on Sedated Hospital Patients without Consent
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
Majority of U.S. Hospitals Not Meeting Surgical Safety Standards
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
Going into hospital far riskier than flying: World Health Organization
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
Hidden Public Health Threat In Hospitals Killing 162,000 Annually
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
Hospital Pharmacists forced to Ration Drugs Due To Drug Shortages
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
Patients Being Charged Thousands for Just Sitting in a Hospital ER Room
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
Superbugs, Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) and How They’re Spread
Superbugs and Hospital-Acquired-Infections. By Trisha Torrey, verywell health. No discussion of patient safety would be complete without covering the growth of superbugs, infectious organisms that make patients sick and may even cause death. They are called superbugs because… Read More