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CDC: One In 5 Women Reported Mistreatment While Receiving Maternity Care

November 6, 2023

The CDC held a press briefing on August 22, 2023 during which the participants discussed the weekly Vital Signs report for August 22, 2023, and stated, in part: CDC analyzed data from the Porter Novelli View Moms Survey administered from April 24-30, 2023, to examine the following components of disr[...]

Nursing Home Staffing Crisis In The United States

October 31, 2023

The American Health Care Association surveyed 524 nursing home providers in the United States between December 7 and December 16, 2022, and stated in its January 2023 report: The vast majority of nursing homes are experiencing staffing shortages and difficulties in hiring additional staff. Providers[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Against Emergency Department Trainees

October 14, 2023

Patients brought to hospital emergency departments are often unable to choose the medical staff that will treat them. In true emergency situations, it is unrealistic to assume that a patient or the family who arrives with the patient will be able to ask questions regarding the qualifications and exp[...]

Study Found New Use Of Opioids Increases Risk of Death Elevenfold During First 14 Days In Adults 65 And Older Who Have Dementia

September 22, 2023

A study released during the July 2023 meeting of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands that followed participants for 180 days after their first opioid prescription and also followed a group of adults 65 and older who had dementia who did not receive an[...]

Pennsylvania Nursing Home RN Charged With Killing Two Residents And Intentionally Drugging A Third

September 17, 2023

Nursing Home RN Charged With Killing Two Residents: Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced on May 25, 2023 criminal charges filed against a western Pennsylvania registered nurse accused of administering lethal doses of unnecessary medication that resulted in the death of two patients[...]

Could Nursing Homes Meet Increased Staffing Requirements?

September 16, 2023

KFF (formerly known as The Kaiser Family Foundation) recently analyzed the percentage and characteristics of long-term care facilities (nursing homes) that would meet higher levels of nursing staff, if required under Medicare and Medicaid, and found “virtually all nursing facilities meet curre[...]

National Poll Finds More Than One-Third Of Americans Give Nursing Homes D+ For Quality Of Care

September 14, 2023

A national survey conducted online from July 5 to July 24, 2023 by West Health and Gallup, Inc. found that 36% of the respondents gave nursing homes in the United States a “D” (poor) rating for quality of care; 6% gave them an “F” (fail); 33% grade nursing homes as satisfactory (C”[...]

HHS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards For Nursing Homes

September 2, 2023

HHS Proposes Minimum Staffing Standards: On September 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), issued a proposed rule that seeks to establish comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes—including, for[...]

3M Announces Settlement Of Combat Arms Earplug Litigation Claims

September 1, 2023

3M Announces Settlement Of Combat Arms Earplug Litigation Claims: On August 29, 2023, 3M announced that it has reached an agreement with the court-appointed negotiating plaintiffs’ counsel to resolve the Combat Arms Earplug litigation against Aearo Technologies (Aearo) and 3M. Under the agree[...]

CDC Vital Signs: Maternity Care Experiences — United States, April 2023

August 31, 2023

Maternity Care Experiences, United States, April 2023: The CDC stated in its weekly Vital Signs for the week of August 22, 2023: From 2018 to 2021, the maternal death rate in the United States increased from 17.4 to 32.9 per 100,000 live births. Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, Black, and[...]

Defense Verdict In Pediatric Necrotizing Pancreatitis Medical Malpractice Case

August 24, 2023

Defense Verdict In Pediatric Necrotizing Pancreatitis Case: In June 2023, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after four hours of deliberations and a four-day trial in favor of the defendant gastroenterologist who was the attending physician for a nine-year-old patient who went i[...]

Letter To Congress Stresses Need For Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes

August 20, 2023

Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes: In its June 16, 2023 letter to the United States Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) stated, “Despite years of government reports sounding the alarm about infection control lapses in nursing[...]

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