L.I. Hospital Scrutinized After Deaths of Patients
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After a patient died of complications following a double mastectomy that she did not need, investigators are taking a close look at Mercy Medical Center.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.
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Two premature infants died and a third was in critical condition after being given adult-size doses of medication, prompting hospital officials to review drug-handling procedures.
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PORTLAND, Ore.  -- Federal investigators are looking into patient care at the hospital made famous in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," where there have been reports of abuse, short staffing and overcrowding.
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Only two months ago, the Emergency Department at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital was piled high with patient charts: files clogged with physicians' notes and nurses' follow-throughs, with test orders and lab results and a plethora of other printouts and paperwork. As in most EDs, keeping track of everyt...
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The Ministry of Health is looking at the possibility of opening a unit at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital where HIV/AIDS patients will be treated.
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KINGSTON, NY -- State health officials are probing the deaths of four Ulster County residents who died in recent months of a rare brain disease.
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The last thing William Somers remembers before passing out from a massive heart attack was the ambulance ride to the hospital. When he woke up, Somers was astonished to learn doctors at Loyola University Medical
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LOS ANGELES Financial problems have shut down two Los Angeles County emergency rooms for good over the past two weeks -- raising concerns that the county&#39;s remaining E-Rs may be overwhelmed.
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A patient died at a troubled hospital after an intensive care nurse ignored her worsening condition and alerted doctors only after the woman went into cardiac arrest, Los Angeles County health officials said.
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LOS ANGELES A national accrediting group that conducted surprise inspections at four LA area hospitals earlier this month didn&#39;t find problems as severe as those plaguing the county&#39;s Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Shipman Inquiry investigated the deaths in the early 1970s of 137 hospital patients, it has been revealed.
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NEW YORK  - The number of breast cancer surgeries that a hospital performs seems to be associated with the likelihood of subsequently dying from breast cancer, Milwaukee-based researchers have found.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Health Organization says one in 10 hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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An inquiry is to be launched after a charity highlighted six deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years, a VA official said Monday as he apologized to affected families and pledged reform.
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LOS ANGELES The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.