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It is reported on MSNBC that the government recently gave hospitals around the country a report card based upon how they have treated patients with heart attacks or heart failure. Officials scored almost 4,500 hospitals around the country and most performed around the national average when their patient mortality rates were considered. The Secretary of…

The state Board of Medicine will give staff members more authority over many disciplinary cases to try to reduce a backlog of more than 2,000 complaints against doctors and other health professionals. It is about time! Under Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s “Virginia Performs” initiative, all of the state boards are being asked to resolve 90…

This morning my local paper, the Roanoke Times, printed a story on how gastric bypass surgery may be treating and or healing type II diabetes in some recipients. Well – apparently, this is not news to everyone. Diabetes Health printed the following article in May – so while little is know about the long term…

The parents of a Wanaque, New Jersey boy born with severe birth defects have won a $1.5 million settlement in their wrongful birth lawsuit against Physicians for Women of Wayne. The parents alleged that medical professionals responsible for reading a 19-1/2 week sonogram failed to observe a hand defect and diagnosed the pregnancy as normal.…

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has highlighted sepsis (an infection of the blood) and identified several deficiencies which may lead to poor outcomes with patients with severe sepsis. The deficiencies include inconsistency in the early diagnosis of severe sepsis and septic shock, inadequate volume resuscitation, delayed use of antibiotics, and failure to control hyperglycemia…

Check out this article in the Washington Post by RoB Stein: LINK Breast Cancer Drug Study CanceledBy Rob SteinWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, June 20, 2007 The federal government yesterday canceled a $100 million study designed to test a new generation of drugs to prevent breast cancer in women at risk for the disease.The National Cancer…

The Tennessee Health Department fined and suspended new admissions to a nursing home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The 140-bed nursing home was ordered not to admit any new patients after the state conducted a complaint investigation June 3- 13. The state also imposed a $3,000 fine on Tennessee Veterans Home for having been cited with immediate…

According to an article on MSNBC, even though it is a standing joke for medical residents, hospitals can be a terrible place for a sick person. A large number of people (100,000+ according to the Center for Disease Control) end up with potentially deadly infections while they are in the hospital. Incisions which become infected…

Wow… Medical Facilities of America, Piney Forest Nursing Home was sued in the City of DANVILLE, for the wrongful death of Charlie Musgrove. Check out the Danville Register Bee, that reports: “The family of the 80-year-old claimed his death was caused by dehydration and an infection caused by bedsores.” The family and their attorney Jeff…