A delegation from Envita Asia Hospital Corp. has signed a joint venture with Phoenix-based John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital. This was the first time either hospital signed an international agreement. The joint venture will provide the Vietnamese hospital's most seriously ill and injured patients access to American healthcare expertise and technology. An estimated 60% of the population in Vietnam has no access to medical treatment.
Robin Lumley, childless, overweight and unmarried at 46, arrived at an emergency room in University Community Hospital in Carrollwood (FL) 2 1/2 years ago complaining of terrible abdominal pain. A short while later, the medical staff at the hospital found that she had delivered a 6-pound baby girl into the toilet although Lumley did not know she was pregnant. Now the hospital is being sued, and plaintiffs contend that baby Brianna Rose Lumley went into respiratory arrest and suffered brain damage due to treatment providers' negligence.
Economic stress is taking its toll on U.S. residents' emotional and physical health, new survey data show. A survey conducted by the American Psychological Association found that more than half of Americans report irritability or anger, fatigue and sleeplessness, and almost half say they self-medicate by overeating or indulging in unhealthy foods. Money and the economy topped the list of stressors for at least 80% of those surveyed.
In a survey, physicians were presented with two scenarios: In one, a child receives an overdose of insulin and is admitted to the intensive care unit, and in the other, a doctor overlooks a lab test and the child is hospitalized for a serious infection. The insulin overdose would be more apparent to the child’s family, and that may partly explain why 75% of pediatricians said they would definitely report the insulin overdose to the child's family, but only 33% said they’d definitely report the overlooked lab test. The range of responses about whether and how to report such errors to patients is reflective of a medical culture that is only slowly moving toward transparency, and of an abiding fear of lawsuits among doctors, say the study's authors.
For months, officials at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center have been buzzing with excitement about the anticipated opening of their new home. But that opening has been delayed repeatedly. There are two main concerns loom over the $1.02-billion medical center's opening: Are there too few beds, and will there be enough doctors to fully staff the expanded emergency room when it opens?
Officials of University Medical Center at Princeton, NJ, have broken ground on a $441 million hospital in Plainsboro. The facility will be the centerpiece of a 160-acre campus that will also see job creation and housing. Planned for a 50-acre tract, the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, as the new facility is called, will replace the existing acute-care hospital in downtown Princeton. The new 238-bed hospital features all private rooms and a design that takes advantage of natural light and surroundings, said Barry Rabner, president and CEO of Princeton HealthCare System. Rabner added that the facility will "redefine how care is delivered in New Jersey."