Montage Health must answer claims employees at its Northern California hospital intentionally caused a mentally ill woman severe emotional distress when they refused to take seriously her claim that she’d been sexually assaulted.
A visitor to the neonatal intensive care unit at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is believed to have brought in the antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria that spread to six babies and six staff members, a hospital official said Tuesday.
In a state with so many epicenters of wealth, talent and power, even some of New York’s hospitals are household names: from the huge, prestigious general hospitals like Mount Sinai and New York-Presbyterian to highly specialized institutions like the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Hospital for Special Surgery. But you wouldn’t know that if you looked at the national data.
You might assume that standard medical advice was supported by mounds of scientific research. But researchers recently discovered that nearly 400 routine practices were flatly contradicted by studies published in leading journals.
Kaylee Patterson woke with a sharp pain in her right eye the morning after she had Lasik surgery. She felt a dull ache on one side of her face. Worried, Ms. Patterson visited her surgeon and her regular eye doctor several times over the next few weeks.
Seattle Children’s Hospital has closed all its main operating rooms due to a mold called Aspergillus, hospital spokeswoman Kathryn Mueller said. Aspergillus, a fungus that can cause infections, was discovered in several operating and equipment storage rooms in mid-May.