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Private Equity Hospitals Associated With 25.4% Increase In Hospital-Acquired Adverse Events

March 11, 2024

A study published on JAMA Network on December 26, 2023 reported: “In a difference-in-differences examination of 662 095 hospitalizations at 51 private equity–acquired hospitals and 4 160 720 hospitalizations at 259 matched control hospitals using 100% Medicare Part A claims data, priva[...]

$4.8M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed And Untreated Spinal Infection Leading To Paralysis

February 16, 2019

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife in excess of $4.8 million on January 25, 2019 after a two-week trial and three-and-a-half hours of deliberations. The jury awarded $183,673 per year for the next 18 years for the man’s medical expenses, $1.23 million for past a[...]

Hospital Mold Deaths Linked To Outside Laundry Facility

February 9, 2017

A confidential report commissioned by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMC”) in September 2015 following the mold-related deaths of three implant patients at two of its hospital facilities reportedly found mold present at its outside contracted laundry facility that handled[...]

Seattle Hospital Warns Dialysis Patients Of Possible Hepatitis B Exposure

June 26, 2016

A Seattle hospital has warned nearly 650 patients who have received dialysis treatments at its dialysis facility since February 2011 that inadequate screening of dialysis patients for Hepatitis B may have exposed them to the serious disease. The matter involves dialysis patients who may have receive[...]

CDC’s Report On Hospital-Acquired Infections

January 28, 2015

Earlier this month, the CDC issued its report entitled National And State Healthcare Associated Infections Progress Report (“Report”) that analyzes the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (“NHSN”) data from more than 13,000 hospitals and other healthcare faciliti[...]

New Hampshire Med Tech Charged In Hep C Outbreak

July 22, 2012

A traveling contract medical techician (“med tech”) had his career abruptly ended after being accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak involving 31 patients over the period of a few months in a New Hampshire hospital. He was arrested and charged on July 19, 2012. Prior to his employme[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman Who Lost Both Hands, Both Feet, And One Eye

March 6, 2012

A Brooklyn, New York mother has received a settlement from the city of Brooklyn, New York and from a local Brooklyn hospital and two of its doctors for her severe losses suffered as a result of alleged medical malpractice that cost her her feet, her hands, and her sight in one eye. In September,[...]

Hospital Acquired Infections

February 28, 2012

Nearly 4.5 hospital acquired infections occur for every 100 hospital admissions in the United States each year, costing the healthcare system between $5.7 billion and $6.8 billion per year (2007). Hospital acquired infections range from mild infections to life-threatening or life-ending infection[...]

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