VA Health Care Official Statistics (2013)
May 16, 2014
The U.S. Congress established the U.S. Veterans Administration in 1930, authorizing the U.S. President to “consolidate and coordinate Government activities affecting war veterans.” Since 1930, the VA health care system has grown from 54 hospitals to 152 hospitals, 800 community based out[...]
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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 6, 2014
May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]
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Stethoscope Contamination: What You Don’t See Can Hurt You
April 28, 2014
Studies have shown that most physicians and nurses do not disinfect their stethoscopes frequently – 70% to 90% of physicians do not disinfect their stethoscopes after each patient contact. The parts of the stethoscope most likely to come in contact with patients (i.e., the diaphragm and the b[...]
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Cost Of Long Term Care In The United States In 2014
April 26, 2014
A recently published survey of the cost of long term care in the United States in 2014 reported that the cost of long term care has steadily increased over the last eleven years but that the cost of long term care provided at home has grown at a lesser rate than the cost of long term care provid[...]
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The 5 Most Common Preventable Nursing Home Adverse Events
April 22, 2014
According to the February 2014 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” five physicians were contracted to review th[...]
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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2013
February 27, 2014
On February 19, 2014, a large medical malpractice insurance company that provides medical malpractice insurance and consulting services to more than 13,000 health care providers in the United States published its annual report regarding medical malpractice payout statistics for the United States f[...]
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Wronged By Another Without The Right To Recover
January 13, 2014
When a medical professional’s negligence or carelessness leads to the suffering of another, you would think that the innocent victim would be fairly and adequately compensated for the losses and harms he suffered. Not so, demand medical malpractice tort reformers. The reformers do not wish[...]
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