Hospital News
Mold in Seattle Children’s Hospital Kills 1, Infects 5
One of the nation’s 10 best children’s hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. By Katelyn Newman, US News. A Dangerous type of mold has killed one patient and infected five more at Seattle Children’s… Read More
Another Patient Dies in Ben Taub ER Waiting Area
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle. Another patient recently died at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency center without receiving timely treatment, system officials revealed Friday, the fourth death in the Texas Medical Center in the last eight months… Read More
Quarter of Hospitals Fail to Comply with Medical Errors Policy
By MARIA CASTELLUCCI, Modern Healthcare. About a quarter of hospitals fail to meet the Leapfrog Group’s standards in addressing serious patient harm events should they occur, according to a new report. The analysis, published Thursday, found 74.5%… Read More
No one should die from a blood transfusion. So why did it happen at MD Anderson, the nation’s top cancer hospital?
By Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News. In early December, a nurse at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center gave a 23-year-old leukemia patient a blood transfusion that, unbeknownst to the medical staff, had… Read More
Audit Finds 10 ‘Egregious’ Deficiencies At Calhoun Liberty Hospital After Dawson Death
By LYNN HATTER, WUSF. Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administrations has cited the Calhoun-Liberty County Hospital with 10 deficiencies in an audit following the death of a Blountstown woman. The agency is ordering the hospital to… Read More
After 2 Deaths and a Series of Medical Errors, the For-Profit Owner of Waterbury and Manchester Hospitals Faces Protests, Major Sanctions
By JOSH KOVNER, HARTFORD COURANT. Medical regulators and community members were concerned when Prospect MedicalHoldings, Inc., a Los Angeles-based, for-profit hospital chain, applied for approval in 2015to buy Waterbury, Manchester and Rockville hospitals. Some of Prospect’s… Read More
Hospitals Accused Of Paying Doctors Large Kickbacks In Quest For Patients
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News. For a hospital that had once labored to break even, Wheeling Hospital displayed abnormally deep pockets when recruiting doctors. To lure Dr. Adam Tune, an anesthesiologist from nearby Pittsburgh… Read More
Medicare Terminates Contract with Southeastern Kentucky Medical Center For Patient Safety Violations
By WILL WRIGHT, for Lexington Herald Leader. The federal government cut off Medicare and Medicaid payments to a Kentucky hospital last week following a scathing inspection that found the hospital failed several of its patients…. Read More
Medicare Trims Payments To 800 Hospitals, Citing Patient Safety Incidents
Eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, federal records show. The number is the highest since the federal government five years ago...