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OIG Report: Patient Dumping
The Office of the Inspector General has been doing very good work lately releasing damning data about the care patients are receiving in this nation’s hospitals. Today they released settlements in cases of Patient Dumping which is immoral and illegal. The full report is here. Hospitals cited in this latest data release for 2010 are listed […]
CELEBRITY DEATH:
May 13, 2011
TEXAS: Sad news today of the passing of former Dallas running back Ron Springs, who died yesterday afternoon. Springs entered a Dallas hospital 4 years ago to have a benign cyst removed from his forearm. During surgery he suffered a lack of oxygen – something which never should have occured. The result? He never regained […]
Houston Area Hospitals Infection Problems
April 26, 2011
TEXAS – Preventable vascular infections plaguing elderly patients in Houston area hospitals. Yang Wang covers this story for the Houston Chronicle. Medicare attributes these infections to unsanitary conditions and improper proceedures. So much for the “unforseeable complication” excuse.
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June 3, 2011
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