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Entries Tagged as 'Hospitals'

Hospital infections on the radar

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

It isn’t new news that hospital-acquired infections are an ongoing problem.
Here in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center is leading the charge to be clear with patients about its rates of infection.
And today, an official from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon reveal a new “national action plan” to prevent hospital-acquired [...]

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Dying in the hospital waiting room

July 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Did you hear about the woman who died in a Brooklyn, N.Y. hospital waiting room? If you don’t believe it, click here to check out the youtube video.
Seeing is believing, but my jaw dropped when I heard that the psychiatric patient had been dead for more than an hour by the time hospital workers found [...]

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