From the Post and Courier. Patients can make choices about which hospital they use based on many factors, including advertisements on billboards and signs on the back of city buses. While annual hospital rankings published in magazines like U.S. News & World Report and Consumer Reports offer conflicting advice on the best places to seek […]

Nurses who experience impairments due to fatigue, loss of sleep, and inability to recover between shifts are more likely than unimpaired nurses to report decision regret according to the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.  In a study that was released, over 600 nurses were interviewed. Mistakes such as failing to follow care plans, failing to supervise, […]

by A.C. Thompson ProPublica, Dec. 31, 2013, 2:54 p.m. The one-story beige building on Southwest Hill Road in McMinnville, Ore. 2013 an old mill town between Portland and Salem 2013 has seen plenty of trouble over the years of its operation as an assisted living facility. Two men have been jailed for committing sex crimes […]

Elizabeth Leis Newman – McKnights Despite one’s best intentions for 2014, there will be days when you feel like you are failing your residents, your coworkers, your family or yourself. This is a part of life, but do not fear. The pageviews on McKnight’s lawsuit stories reflect that people both want to know what to look out […]

The per-page rates – 65 cents for the first 30 pages and 50 cents for each page after that – still could be charged to reproduce paper copies of medical records. The proposed law would allow hospitals to charge patients a maximum $15 clerical fee to produce a digital copy. “The frustration is, you really […]

MetroWest Daily News : Jury awards $2M to Marlborough woman A jury on Tuesday awarded an 87-year-old Marlborough woman more than $2 million after finding she was sexually assaulted at a local nursing home in 2011. The verdict in favor of Marie Claire Courchaine is the highest in a nursing home case in Massachusetts state […]