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Nursing
New Joint Commission 'Quick Safety' Advisory Addresses Intimate Partner ViolenceWith their position on the frontlines of healthcare, nurses are perfectly positioned to identify patients who may be victims of...
Covid-19
A Boy Went to a COVID-Swamped ER. He Waited for Hours. Then His Appendix Burst. As the nation's hospitals fill and emergency rooms overflow with critically ill COVID-19 patients, the non-COVID-19 patients have become collateral...
Payer
Hospital 'Trauma Centers' Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People HomeTens of thousands of times a year, hospitals charge enormously expensive trauma alert fees for injuries so minor the patient...
Strategy
Violent Colorado Arrest Puts Spotlight on How Police Treat Disabled PeopleTraining on how to interact with disabled people varies, but the basics include identifying such individuals early in an encounter...
Payer
In Alleged Healthcare 'Money Grab,' Nation's Largest Hospital Chain Cashes In on Trauma CentersHCA Healthcare's activation fees run as high as $50,000 per patient and are sometimes 10 times greater than those at...
Clinical Care
Processing Clinician Grief and Burnout During, and Outside of, a PandemicThe trauma that medical professionals witness isn't "normal" for an average person's experience?let alone the trauma associated with COVID-19, unprecedented...
Strategy
Minneapolis Police Injured Protesters With Rubber Bullets. The City Has Taken Little Action.Dozens of people were seriously injured during the protests last summer, leading to lawsuits, promises of reform and calls to...
Clinical Care
Homicides Surge in California Amid COVID Shutdowns of Schools, Youth ProgramsAfter more than a decade of fairly steady decreases, California's homicide rate surged in 2020.
Clinical Care
The Making of Reluctant Activists: A Police Shooting in a Hospital Forces One Family to Rethink American JusticeThe shot fired into Alan Pean's chest would extinguish his family's belief that diligent high achievers could outwit the racism...
Strategy
'Red Flag' Gun Laws Get Another Look After Indiana, Colorado ShootingsColorado is among the most recent of 19 states to have enacted red flag laws. Connecticut was first, in 1999.
Strategy
Parents Want Justice for Birth Injuries. Hospitals Want to Strip Them of the Right to Make That Decision.Florida is one of two states that shield doctors and hospitals from most legal actions arising from births that go...