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Skilled Healthcare Group Gets Court Verdict of Not Meeting Minimum Nursing Home Standards in California And May Not Be Able to Appeal– Skilled Healthcare’s Liability Insurance Has Been Exhausted For This Year So Now What?

The size of the award may be reduced as the article sates and one of their facilities in northern California was found negligent and short handed on staff with not meeting the guidelines and rules as set in California. The company operates 22 nursing...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2010 5:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Lawsuit, Health IT, Nursing Homes, Safety, Sensors, Smart Bed, Patients, Skilled Healthcare

Hospital Tagging Babies for Tracking - “Tagging Tots”

This will help stop people from kidnapping babies for sure. It appears to be some type of RFID device and is attached at the belly button. It almost reminds me a bit of the tags we see in the stores to prevent shoplifting and requires a special...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2010 5:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, healthcare, Heatlh IT, RFID, Safety, nurses, babies, kidnapping, nursery

Dennis Quaid Produces Documentary About Patient Safety - Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm

We like talking patient safety around the Medical Quack by all means and throw in some potential solutions when idea pop into my head. It is technology that is creating a lot of this with distraction or disruption as well. Clinicians are overloaded...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2010 8:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Hospital, healthcare, tags, Safety, Dennis Quaid, Journal, Microsoft Tags, Discover Channel, Cedar Sinai, Hand washing

Hospital in Stoughton Massachusetts Puts Hospital Admissions on Hold – 21 Days Until Corrections are Made

New England Sinai Hospital has closed it’s doors to new patients at the suggestion of the state inspectors. Overall patients stated the hospital offered good care and service. The one man interviewed stated that he thought the staff was stretched...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2010 12:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, inspections, Safety, Wound care, Stoughton, New England Sinai Hospital, Sinai

Cedar-Sinai Medical Center Gets Hit with Class Action Suit – CT Scanning Radiation Overdose

I spent a little time around one of these when I was writing some software to export calcium scores into a customized program I wrote for patient use in follow up and to help drill down and keep track of all the high score patients. There is regular...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2009 6:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Lawsuit, FDA, software, Safety, CT Scan, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Algorithms, radiation, screening, brain scan

CT Brain Scans At Cedars-Sinai investigated – Dosage Settings Too High

Cedars found the overdoses back in August and began their own investigation after patients were complaining of hair loss and red irritated skin. As a result the FDA has sent out a warning letter advising for safe settings for scanners. 8...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2009 6:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, FDA, software, Safety, CT Scan, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Algorithms, radiation, screening, brain scan

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