Hospital Fails to Notify Family of Patient’s Death for over a Week
Troubles are nothing new for Washington D.C.’s only public hospital, United Medical Center. Just last month, I wrote a post about how their obstetrics department…
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Worries about School Safety Wane for First Time since Sandy Hook Incident
August is a time when most young children around the nation go back to school, and, for the first time since 2012, parents will be…
Health Department Suspends Obstetric License for United Medical Center in D.C.
On Tuesday, August 7th, the D.C. Department of Health ordered United Medical Center (UMC) to stop delivering babies and offering prenatal care for the next…
Hospital Fails Medicare Grade while Still Putting Money in Owner’s Pocket; Patients at Risk
Beleaguered by mounting debt and down-trending stock values, hospital healthcare leader Community Health Systems (CHS) has made some questionable moves that have healthcare professionals and…
No Child Should Be Trapped Underwater in a Swimming Pool From Hair Entanglement
Between 1990 and 2007, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were 98 cases of body entrapments in pools or spa drains, including 15…
Identity Thieves Continue to Target Hospitals in 2017
Recently, a federal judge granted class action status to a civil suit filed against Triad of Alabama, the previous owner of Flowers Hospital in Dothan,…
Financial Aid Applicants Latest to Fall Victim to Identity Theft.
Over the past year, the Nation has seen the effects of Internet espionage and data breach attacks play out in the political arena; however, that…
Do U.S. Hospitals Make the Grade with Maternity Care?
In an era when individuals are bearing more of, if literally not all, the financial burden for their health care coverage, we are seeing a…
Can You Sue a Doctor for Lying? The Truth May Surprise You.
Anyone familiar with the Hippocratic oath understands the undeniable bond between medical care and ethics—ideally, physicians are driven by the desire to help patients, not…
Why Some Communities Are so Pedestrian-Unfriendly
According to a recently released study by Washington, D.C.-based Smart Growth America—the only national organization dedicated to better developed communities across the U.S.—those who choose…