It has been one year since a Norman man died in custody after he refused to leave a local hospital. Now, his family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. In January of 2018, Marconia Kessee went to the emergency room at Norman Regional Hospital. After he was treated for a headache, he was discharged from the hospital. However, he refused to leave.
Last May, a nurse at Winchester Hospital noticed an odd-looking clothes hook inside a staff restroom on the surgical unit. She inspected it more closely and saw a tiny lens embedded in the plastic. It turned out to be a hidden camera. Now, nearly nine months later, a well-known surgeon has been charged with trying to secretly record staff undressing.
Dr. Mark Kot, an urgent-care specialist and the owner of Southampton Urgent Medical Care in Southampton, N.Y., is the anti-Obamacare doctor. He does not participate in most insurance plans and is not in any Affordable Care Act network. He feels sorry for the patients with this restricted insurance, and when they come to his door with a bad cough or a painful foot and ask to be seen, he does his best to provide them great care for a limited cost.
The announcement earlier this year that Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott would close by the end of the year was a surprise and shock to the community, which will lose several hundred jobs and more than a century of community health care legacy. But it was not necessarily unexpected to those in the industry.
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is suing Epic Systems Corp., one of the nation’s largest electronic health records developers, saying the Verona company’s software discriminates against blind people who work in the health care industry because it doesn’t give them access to the computerized records.
DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital spent most of last year in jeopardy of losing its federal Medicare funding after inspections found "significant" deficiencies in nursing care and building safety, according to government reports obtained by The Detroit News. Sinai-Grace lost its Medicare-compliant status for nursing care in March and for the hospital's "physical environment" in April after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requested inspections in response to a substantiated complaint.