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Danville Regional Medical Center (DRMC) was purchased by Nashville, TN based Lifepoint Hospitals, Inc. in 2005….and the problems have not stopped since! The last two years brought about a number of changes at the management level, including last week’s announced departure of the hospital’s fourth CEO since 2005. More importantly for hospital patients, DRMC was…

The sub-title on this article sends chills down my spine…” Doctors across the country keep wheeling us in and cutting us open, even when they’re missing something vitally important: a good reason.” Here at Legal Medicine, we are always suggesting that you need to take charge of your own medical care. Here is another reason…

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds prior ruling to allow a class action lawsuit againt nursing home owned by Beverly Healthcare (who owns/owned nursing homes across the United States, including Virginia). Read the latest here: “On May 1, 2006, Harkey granted class-action certification to the suit with respect to claims of statutory and contractual violations only, not…

The Roanoke Times newspaper contained an Associated Press article today (June 25, 2007) entitled “Drug-Resistant Staph Superbug Increasingly Prevalent, Study Says.” The article is about the shocking numbers of hospital and nursing home patients who are becoming sick with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which cannot be controlled by normal antibiotics. A survey released by the…

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.…