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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Imagine making an emergency call not for help getting to the hospital but after you've already arrived there. That's what Ray Clement and his wife did last year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Shadyside Hospital, where he had gone with a suspected blood clot. When Clement thought...
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In a scathing report on 11 deaths last year at the District's St. Elizabeths Hospital for the mentally ill, an advocacy group for the disabled told city officials yesterday that medical neglect resulted in "needless pain and suffering" for most of the patients "and may well have contributed to...
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A small clinic in Manhattan that handled the cases of thousands of sickened 9/11 recovery and cleanup workers is coming under scrutiny over its performance.
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Police and health safety officials are investigating after a man of 52 died at a recycling unit.
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NEW YORK  - Patients who suffer cardiac arrest while in the hospital and are successfully resuscitated may not live for very long, a study suggests. However, those who receive internal cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have a significant advantage, it seems.
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Public health officials are investigating why a 38-year-old woman died two weeks after undergoing gastric bypass surgery at Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River. The hospital has stopped offering the surgery during the state probe and an internal review.
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Police are investigation the case of a baby who died after being sent home from hospital with Calpol.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, 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 U.S. government posted mortality data on Thursday for the nation's thousands of hospitals for heart attacks and heart failure, in an effort to shed light on which hospitals provide the best care.
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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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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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WINNIPEG (CP) - An intensive care nurse working on the night an 83-year-old patient died of a potassium overdose told an inquest Tuesday she didn&#39;t immediately suspect a medical error.
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If only patients knew more about hospitals&#39; past mistakes, Jacqueline Imbertson thinks fewer of them would die. But if hospitals knew their private safety worries could become
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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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Concerns about safety and the care of dying patients dominate complaints to an NHS watchdog.