77 New York Nursing Homes Found Deficient In COVID-2019 Response
September 27, 2020
The Associated Press (AP) reported on September 24, 2020: “Health inspectors found safety shortcomings at 77 New York nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, including basic infection-control violations like failing to have staff wear masks or wash their hands, according to records and [...]
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Telemedicine And Medical Malpractice
September 19, 2020
Telemedicine is defined as “remote visits with a clinician.” “Telehealth” is “a broader term encompassing telemedicine plus remote monitoring, asynchronous data collection, and a variety of other incorporations of technology into nonclinical patient and professional hea[...]
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Class I Recall Of Abdominal Stent Graft
September 5, 2020
The FDA has announced a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall, of all lots of Endologix Ovation iX Abdominal Stent Graft System manufactured from 2015 to the present, which involves 5,403 such medical devices. The Ovation iX Abdominal Stent Graft System is intended to treat patients with a[...]
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Nursing Home Closures Statistics
July 21, 2020
A report published in February 2020 entitled “Nursing Home Closures and Trends June 2015-June 2019” found that despite 555 nursing homes in the United States having closed since June 2015, and the increasing number of nursing home closures each year, nursing home occupancy rates have dec[...]
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Medical Malpractice Statistics For Retinal Surgery
July 20, 2020
In an article posted on June 8, 2020 entitled “Malpractice Litigation in Vitreoretinal Surgery and Medical Retina” that was designed to report and analyze the causes and outcomes of vitreoretinal surgery and medical retina malpractice litigation concluded: “The complexity of treati[...]
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