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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Hospital infections on the radar
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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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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