Power is back on at the Dayton Children's Hospital main campus after the hospital was running on generators through the night. Stacy Porter of Dayton Children's Hospital said power is back on for most of the main campus located at 1 Children's Plaza in Dayton.
Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion as well as feeling cynical, ineffective or unaccomplished at work, is bad for both employees and employers. For doctors and hospitals, though, the ramifications can be especially dire.
Claudia Martinez, 28, is a walking miracle. She's also a fourth-year medical student at the same hospital that has treated her throughout six brain surgeries. The Brawley, Calif., native who was raised in Houston, Texas wanted to be a doctor since she was a little girl but she never could have imagined the journey it would take her on, which she now describes as "a blessing in disguise."
Reginald Archibald, a former doctor and scientist at Rockefeller University Hospital, sexually abused many of his child patients for decades, and his employer had multiple “warning signs” about his behavior, according to a report released Thursday by Rockefeller.
A Long Beach hospital failed to comply with California law in January when it discharged an 84-year-old dementia patient who got into a cab and was dumped in the middle of the night outside a locked Alzheimer’s treatment facility, according to a state investigation.
Lawyers for an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility have filed a $45 million notice of claim against the state. The precursor to a lawsuit says the woman, who has been in long-term care since age 3 after suffering a near-drowning, allegedly was raped repeatedly before giving birth last December.