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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Concerns about safety and the care of dying patients dominate complaints to an NHS watchdog.
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Uganda's health ministry says it will investigate the death of at least seven patients in a hospital strike.
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LOS ANGELES -- Reviewers from a national accrediting agency are in Los Angeles for unannounced inspections of four hospitals run by Los Angeles County, it was reported Tuesday.
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When patients in the hospital suddenly go into cardiac arrest, the staff often takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds.
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An independent inquiry is ordered after an increase in the number of deaths after heart transplants in Scotland.
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WASHINGTON The World Health Organization says one in ten hospital patients are victims of sometimes fatal medical mistakes that could have been prevented.
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The federal government is now telling patients whether their local hospitals are doing what they should to treat heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
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Researchers singled out the deaths of more than 300,000 cancer patients, because deaths from cancer are usually more predictable and less sudden than those from heart attacks, strokes or other ailments.
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Two patients given inaccurate test results have died after a hospital failed to diagnose cancer in three other patients.
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For more than a year, US civil rights investigators have been probing into the care delivered at Metro&#39;s Bordeaux Hospital, a nursing home where federal consultants have discovered a history
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An inquest into the death of nurse finds shortcomings in standards of care expected in a major teaching hospital.
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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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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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A coroner castigates a hospital's standard of nursing care after four inquests.
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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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.