OHH Administrator Mike Huff said the hospital is running in the black thanks to revenue from a booming pain management practice and an uptick in surgeries that patients had put off during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that “a series of different strategic moves” helped the facility rebound from the pandemic.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Many doctors worry that the drugs' current popularity, fueled in part by social media, has resulted in people taking them without sufficient medical supervision.
