Posts tagged hospitals

• "Formal silverware" and the State of New York's duty to its psychiatric patients

  Edward Nitkewicz | September 13, 2011 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsLong Island, NY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In what a Court of Claims Judge ruled a specious defense claim, the State of New York argued that its duty to account for knives in its psychiatric hospitals should extend to silverware and not...

• Extent of Echocardiogram Backlog Debacle at NYC’s Harlem Hospital Grows

  Paul Napoli | June 07, 2010 12:14 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Doctors reviewing the backlog of thousands of echocardiograms performed at New York City’s Harlem Hospital found there are substantially more of the unread tests than previously thought and...

• NYC’s Harlem Hospital Fails to Read 4,000 Echocardiograms in 3 Year Backlog

  Paul Napoli | May 31, 2010 11:37 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  4,000 echocardiograms performed in the last three years at Harlem Hospital in New York City were never read by a cardiologist due to understaffing, according to an article in The New York Times. An...