In the fall of 2018, the American College of Physicians published a position paper on gun violence. “Firearm violence continues to be a public health crisis in the United States,” its authors wrote, in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The report argued that assault weapons should be banned and that “physicians should counsel patients on the risk of having firearms in the home.”
A West Side hospital was forced to stop accepting patients on the tail end of a violent weekend that has left 47 people been shot, four fatally, across the city. Saturday night, resources were stretched to the breaking point as officers responded to multiple shootings in Chicago's 10th Police District, which includes West Side neighborhoods such as Lawndale, Douglas Park and Homan Square. The shootings all occurred within a three hour period, resulting in 17 people injured and at least one dead.
A new report is recommending that the D.C. Department of Health investigates allegations of staff abuse at St. Elizabeths Hospital. Advocacy program Disability Rights DC at University Legal Services detailed three cases from earlier this year in which patients at D.C.’s public psychiatric hospital were violently restrained or secluded by staff, in violation of D.C. law and hospital policy.
Fewer than half the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patients who responded to questions about their satisfaction there said the areas around their hospital rooms were always quiet at night — earning UIHC just one star out of a possible five in a survey.
According to a release from Ballad Health, nine physicians have now been named to key leadership positions within the organization. The release says these physicians have a combined over 100 years of experience in the region between them.
Lawmakers and the fire chief are split over a question officials have mulled for years: Should the Syracuse Fire Department keep offering free ambulance rides? For years, the fire department has operated its own public ambulance service, free of charge, while private ambulance companies in the city bill hundreds or thousands for their services.