Administrators at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, yesterday tried to reassure alarmed employees that its recent dismissals of faculty members alleged to have broken federal funding rules were not connected to race or ethnicity.
Imagine going to a doctor’s office that doesn’t take health insurance; instead, they charge a monthly fee. An office in Saint Joseph switched to that healthcare model a year and a half ago. The patients WSBT 22 talked with say it's actually been more cost-effective.
The doctor accused of sexually assaulting two patients is no longer working for Sparrow Health System. A spokesperson from Sparrow confirmed to FOX 47 News on Tuesday, that Doctor John Laurain is no longer an employee.
Well past seven one evening in 1988, after the nurses and the office manager had gone home, as he prepared to see the last of his patients and return some phone calls, Dr. Lou Ortenzio stopped by the cupboard where the drug samples were kept.
Madison will soon have the first house in the nation that’s designed to help families without a home as they recover from surgery, childbirth or other hospital stays. Construction crews are putting the finishing touches the Healing House. It will soon start accepting patients who have just been released from the hospital but have nowhere else to go.
A $450,000 wrongful death lawsuit settlement has been made by Winchester Medical Center to the family of an 84-year-old woman who died last year, about two months after being admitted to the hospital. The hospital and Valley Health System, a six-hospital, nonprofit chain that includes Winchester Medical Center, were sued by Vicky Smith, the daughter of Alice Viola Pifer, an 84-year-old Gerrardstown, W.Va., resident.