A patient was found unresponsive in a Pennsylvania emergency department and later pronounced dead after footage showed staff repeatedly passing by the patient, who was in the hospital for hours. WellSpan York Hospital emergency staff were seen on video walking past a patient in a wheelchair approximately 12 times on Aug. 16.
Three months after the state medical board voted to tighten regulations on how doctors practice medicine, the rules are facing stiff resistance from Massachusetts hospitals and physicians, and it’s unclear to what extent they are being obeyed.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center was one of nine Montana hospitals penalized for failing to meet federal standards to reduce unnecessary readmissions under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program. This is the first time Kalispell Regional is being penalized under the act. It faces a 0.13% cut to Medicare payments in 2020, while The HealthCenter – which is part of Kalispell Regional Healthcare – is also being penalized, though that cut is just 0.01%.
Over the span of more than 20 years and three presidents, as surgeons general we’ve confronted more than our fair share of devastating public health crises, from emerging infections like bird flu, SARS, the H1N1 pandemic, and Ebola, to the opioid crisis and national-preparedness issues like hurricanes and terrorist attacks.
New Yorkers assume that living here gives them access to the best hospitals. They’re in dreamland. Though a few institutions earn high marks — think NewYork-Presbyterian — overall hospitals in the state are among the worst in the nation, according to Medicare data. Forty-eight out of 151 graded hospitals received a rock-bottom one-star rating.
Two government health departments are investigating a Macomb County hospital after several cases of Legionnaires' disease were reported. The Macomb County Health Department and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services are probing McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens, seeking the source of the disease and determining if there are more infected people, according to a press release.