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Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center Do Not Get High Marks
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center Do Not Get High Marks 150 150 Dan Frith

The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for patients.  It is the nation’s premier advocate of hospital transparency—collecting, analyzing and disseminating important hospital data to consumers of health care for the past 16 years.  The Roanoke Times just published an article on the most recent…

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What Happens to your Non-Compete Contract When your Employer is Purchased?
What Happens to your Non-Compete Contract When your Employer is Purchased? 150 150 Dan Frith

We get this question frequently and the answer can be complicated.  In the most common situation, an employee signs a non-compete agreement with her employer (the ABC Company).  The contract provides the employee will not leave the ABC Company (its subsidiaries or affiliates) and compete in the same industry or…

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House of Representative Member Bob Goodlatte: Working Hard to Take Away Your Rights
House of Representative Member Bob Goodlatte: Working Hard to Take Away Your Rights 150 150 Dan Frith

Bob Goodlatte, a Republican congressman from Virginia, is a co-sponsor of HR 1215, a bill laughingly titled, “Protecting Access to Care Act.” The bill, if passed next week, will do exactly the opposite.The bill places sharp limits on lawsuits by individuals who have been injured by abusive nursing homes, incompetent…

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Urgent Care Medicine: Good or Bad?
Urgent Care Medicine: Good or Bad? 150 150 Dan Frith

Starting in the 1970s, enterprising physicians began opening their practices after-hours to patients suffering minor ailments without an appointment. Patients avoided expensive emergency rooms, and they avoided long waits to see their family doctors. For the most part, the idea is a good one and there are about 7,400 urgent…

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Congress is getting ready to take away patients’ rights to hold medical providers accountable for their acts of negligence
Congress is getting ready to take away patients’ rights to hold medical providers accountable for their acts of negligence 150 150 Dan Frith

There is currently a bill in Congress (HR1215 – Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017) put forth by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (Chairman, House Judiciary Committee) that would significantly limit the rights of patients who have been injured by a nursing home, drug manufacturer, medical device company, hospital, or doctor. Nationally, medical…

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Prostate Cancer: an all too common story
Prostate Cancer: an all too common story 150 150 Dan Frith

The Roanoke Times just published an article from “To Your Good Health.” An informative and educational column on infectious diseases and public health issue written by Dr. Keith Roach, a highly respected physician at Weill Cornell Medical College.  Today’s column was based upon a wife’s report of how her husband’s…

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New Guidelines on Sepsis
New Guidelines on Sepsis 150 150 Dan Frith

Sepsis.  What is it?  It is bad and it is life-threatening and it effects more than 1 million patients a year!  The Mayo Clinic defines sepsis as an infection in which the patient exhibits at least two of the following symptoms, plus a probable or confirmed infection:     1.  Body temperature…

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Hospitals in Southside and Southwest Virginia don’t come highly recommended
Hospitals in Southside and Southwest Virginia don’t come highly recommended 150 150 Dan Frith

We all rely upon “word of mouth” in locating a good building contractor, dentist, plumber, painter, doctor, or lawyer.  What about finding a good hospital?If word of mouth from patients who were treated in that hospital is considered, several Virginia hospitals would fare poorly.  Virginia Business magazine’s January issue contains…

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Republicans say there is a “malpractice crisis,” experts disagree.
Republicans say there is a “malpractice crisis,” experts disagree. 150 150 Dan Frith

This issue is not a Republican versus Democrat or Liberal versus Conservative matter.  You have probably heard or read the following:  The medical malpractice crisis is threatening U.S. health care.  Baloney:  Medical errors claim more than 250,000 lives each year and medical negligence is the third-leading cause of death in…

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Danville Regional Hospital Receives Poor Marks
Danville Regional Hospital Receives Poor Marks 150 150 Dan Frith

The only hospital in Danville, Virginia is getting a very poor report card from the Leapfrog Group,  a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system.  The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is becoming the gold standard measure of patient safety. Danville Regional Medical Center was…

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