The Florida Board of Medicine has fined Jacobo Noel Lama, MD, a physician from Haines City, Fla., more than $3,500 in fines and investigative costs for settling accusations that he allowed an unlicensed employee to perform laser hair removal, according…
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Pennsylvania's Board of Medicine has filed a complaint against Feroz Sheikh, MD, who is being accused of failing to notify a patient that she had colon cancer that later caused her death, according to a Times Leader report.
Patient safety experts have developed checklists to address the most frequently occurring operating room crises and tested their effectiveness, according to an AORN report and an abstract of the study, which is published in the August issue of the Journal…
The following is written by Marion K. Jenkins, PhD, FHIMSS, founder and CEO of QSE Technologies. • UCLA Medical Center: Fined $865,000 • Massachusetts General Hospital: Fined $1 million • Cignet Healthcare: Fined $4.3 million. These are some serious…
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices provides a free, downloadable list of oral dosage forms that should not be crushed.
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Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital is in danger of losing its Medicare status if it fails to submit a correction plan to CMS that would address its patient safety deficiencies, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law the Patients' Right to Know Act, which allows patients to access key physician information, including whether they've been the subject of disciplinary action, according to a government release.
The California Integrated Waste Management Board provides a free, downloadable sticker image indicating what should go into red bags as biohazardous waste.
Credentialing physicians for a surgery center is quite an undertaking, considering the amount of information that must be double-checked before a provider is accepted into the facility. Dare Hartsell, RN, MSN, vice president of clinical services for Practice Partners in…
The Penn State Altoona (Pa.) Health and Wellness Center has been awarded accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC/Accreditation Association), according to a Penn State Altoona news release.