Posts tagged hospitals

• The Third Leading Cause of Death is…Doctors?

  Mike Ferrara | March 28, 2012 4:32 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  That’s right…research is showing that doctors in America kill roughly 225,000 people every year. This makes doctors the third leading cause of death after heart disease and...

• Health Care Reform - Not Enough Attention to Medical Error Prevention

  Mike Ferrara | October 20, 2009 10:38 PM | 5 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a report just released by the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services, in 2007, hospital doctors, nurses and other medical workers committed nearly 9,400 serious medical...

• New Jersey Hospitals Must Now Publicly Report Serious Medical Errors

  Camryn Hansen | September 02, 2009 10:35 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Governor Jon Corzine signed a new law earlier this week that will require New Jersey hospitals to publicly report on their performance in areas of patient safety, including serious...

• After Giving Patients HIV, VA Hospitals Still Have Inadequate Safety Procedures in Place

  Mike Ferrara | June 15, 2009 10:55 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Since April, we’ve been letting people know about the medical errors at VA hospitals that have caused at least five patients to contract HIV from contaminated endoscopic...

• Congressional Panel Will Investigate How VA Hospitals Gave Patients HIV

  Mike Ferrara | May 31, 2009 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A congressional panel is set to question officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs about medical mistakes at VA hospitals that caused at least five patients to become infected with HIV,...

• Hospitals are Still Neglecting to Report Serious Mistakes - Are Medical Malpractice Lawsuits the Public’s Only Hope?

  Mike Ferrara | January 30, 2009 11:12 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Despite laws in New Jersey and Pennsylvania requiring hospitals to report major medical errors, unanticipated complications, and near misses to stage agencies for the purpose of reducing medical...

• Fatal Hospital Errors - New Jersey Reports 71 Percent Increase

  Mike Ferrara | December 20, 2008 10:29 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services has announced the results of its third annual Patient Safety Act report, which show that in 2007, a full 72 New Jersey hospital patients...

• Hospitals are Neglecting to Report Mistakes: Are Medical Malpractice Lawsuits the Public’s Only Hope?

  Mike Ferrara | September 12, 2008 5:49 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Despite laws in New Jersey and Pennsylvania requiring hospitals to report major medical errors, unanticipated complications, and near misses to stage agencies for the purpose of reducing medical...