Newark Beth Israel, a hospital that bills itself as the premier heart transplant center in New Jersey, has overestimated survival rates to maintain its funding. According to the New York Post, in one of the cases, a medical facility supported a patient with a brain-dead life support ...
An American hospital stopped supporting the life of one of the patients after people believed to be his relatives agreed to do so. Later it turned out that they were not relatives of the deceased. How could this happen? The man in question was taken to Mercy Hospital ...
Sharp Grossmont Hospital secretly videotaped women between July 2012 and June 2013. Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego has issued its apology after 50 more women, in addition to 81 who filed a lawsuit last ...
Massachusetts Nursing Director, Lisa Smith, visited the newborn at the end of each workday, who was in the hospital but was not visited. After a while, she adopted her. Giselle was born at the 29th week of pregnancy in July 2016. ...
At the New Jersey Medical Center, the 10th child died, contracting an adenovirus infection here, according to the New Jersey Department of Health. Nine other “medically weak” children at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Passayik County, have recently died after ...
A former military man is suing a hospital for veterans over the fact that medical staff forgot a scalpel inside him. Bridgeport, Connecticut resident Glenford Turner said the surgical instrument was discovered several years after surgery. All this time he suffered from constant pain in ...
A laundry worker at a Rhode Island hospital will receive a reward for what he has done with the money he literally laundered. Stephen Ledo, 19, of The Miriam Hospital in Providence, was working in a laundry room when he noticed 50- and ...
The state Department of Health has flagged 52 hospitals with higher than average patient infections. 15 of them are in New York. It turns out that “the longer a person stays in the hospital, the higher the overall risk of contracting an infection,” says a report on hospital-acquired infections,...
In downtown New York City on Wednesday afternoon, a building belonging to the NYU Langone Medical Center caught fire. Firefighters ask people to avoid the area at the intersection of First Avenue and 30th Street in Manhattan. Also, residents of nearby houses are asked not to open the windows because of the strong smoke. ...
Shocking results of a new study conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Medicine showed that thousands of people are dying in the United States due to medical errors. “If we view medical error as a disease, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States,” says Dr....