Bedbugs invade hospitals Why more patients share rooms with the blood-sucking pests
May 2, 2013
MarketWatch.com April 23, 2013, 7:14 p.m. EDT By Jen Wieczner As if adapting to health-care reform and curbing the “nightmare bacteria” weren’t challenge enough, hospitals are increasingly plagued by another problem:
NY Lawsuit Accuses Novartis of Health Care Fraud
April 30, 2013
AP By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK April 24, 2013 (AP) – The U.S. government sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant
Hospital safety: your responsibility or theirs?
April 29, 2013
AJC.COM April 28, 2013 By Carrie Teegardin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Airline passengers don’t review the preflight checklist with the pilot, and restaurant customers aren’t expected to check the kitchen and
AIG Study Shows Hospital C-Suite and Risk Managers Struggle with Maintaining Patient Safety
April 26, 2013
The Wall Street Journal — NEW YORK — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 19, 2013 — Maximizing patient safety is the top priority for hospital C-Suite executives and Risk Managers in
Hospitals Profit From Surgical Errors, Study Finds
April 25, 2013
New York Times By DENISE GRADY Published: April 16, 2013 – Hospitals make money from their own mistakes because insurers pay them for the longer stays and extra care that patients
Checks Find Unsafe Practices at Compounding Pharmacies
April 25, 2013
New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK Published: April 12, 2013 After a crash inspection program, federal regulators said Thursday that they had found numerous unsafe practices at about 30 compounding pharmacies,
NY, NJ cardiologist admits record $19M fraud; thousands of patients got unneeded treatment
April 16, 2013
By Associated Press, Apr 10, 2013 10:56 PM EDT – AP, NEWARK, N.J. — A cardiologist with offices in New York and New Jersey has admitted taking part in a
Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices
April 11, 2013
An expert panel has identified 22 patient safety practices that have been shown to be implementable and have enough evidence of effectiveness to be recommended for adoption by healthcare organizations
Safety still lags in U.S. hospitals – Our updated Ratings show most hospitals need to improve
April 11, 2013
Looking for good news about hospital safety? More hospitals are required to track and report more data, so the Consumer Reports updated hospital safety Ratings now include 2,031 hospitals—up from
AHCJ unveils hospitalinspections.org
April 10, 2013
The Association of Healthcare Journalists has launched a new website, HospitalInspections.org where thousands of federal inspection reports for hospitals nationwide have been compiled. Advocacy by AHCJ has led to CMS