Hospital

Tim Oliveira, 53, of Salisbury died this past Sunday at a Boston hospital after suffering fatal injuries in a tragic accident while working at the Salisbury Fire Department on Lafayette Street last Friday. According to The Eagle Tribune, Lieutenant Oliveira was doing an oil change on one of the department’s vehicles when the jack holding the vehicle failed, causing the vehicle to fall on top of Oliveira. Firef [...]

Patients injured by incidents of medical malpractice in Florida will find it more difficult to hold the hospital or medical staff accountable thanks to a bill recently passed by the Florida Legislature. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, will make it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice to bring medical witnesses from outside Florida to testify as an expert. House Bi [...]

A 72-year-old Jacksonville woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Naval Air Station Jacksonville Hospital for what she says was a preventable medical error that left her partially disabled, reports First Coast News. The woman went in to have a mass removed around her kidney last May and was told she’d be in the hospital for a few days. Instead she was there for four months after her attorney sa [...]

MSN reports that about 90 percent of hospital errors are going unreported by hospitals and federal regulators. A study published in the journal Health Affairs provides a snapshot of just how underreported incidents of medication errors, pressure sores, and staph infections are. A review discovered 354 adverse events like bloodstream infections, pressure sores, and medication errors at three teaching hospitals in th [...]

Gleb Dozorets, 20, of Marblehead, fell from a third story window at 150 Pleasant Street on Wednesday and sustained serious injury, Salem News and Daily Item of Lynn reports said. Dozorets is now listed in stable condition at a Boston hospital. He reportedly landed in the travel lane on Pleasant Street, directly across from the Village Plaza after 8:30 pm. Dozorets was first rushed by ambulance to Seaside Park then [...]

Mauricio Donez-Lopez, 32, of New Bedford was pushing his Dodge Caravan in the right lane of Route 18 in New Bedford on Wednesday night after he ran out of gas when he was hit by a Nissan Altima, severing his leg. The Nissan was driven by 25-year-old Tania Pinto of Dartmouth. Donez-Lopez was taken by ambulance to an area hospital for his severe car accident injury and was then transported to a Providence hospital fo [...]

An article in the Seattle Times describes the difference in hospital treatments of uninsured or under-insured people in hospitals compared to those with full insurance. Not having an insurance card can have hazardous effects on a patient’s health, even inside a hospital, as two recent studies show. One study, conducted by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, focused on hospital mortality rates fo [...]

At least two patients at the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH were injured by the da Vinci surgical robot, a $1.4 million machine named after Leonardo da Vinci, prompting an investigation of Intuitive Surgical Inc, the company that markets the robot, The Wall Street Journal reports.  According to the WSJ, the da Vinci robot is used in 853 US hospitals to perform minimally invasive surgery, though some [...]

On Friday, March 11, Philly.com reports that a man from Darby Borough, driving without a license, was charged after he left the scene of a pedestrian accident in Ridley Township that seriously injured four teens. According to the article, authorities detained the 52-year-old man approximately a mile away from the scene of the Pennsylvania pedestrian accident in a damaged van. It is believed the man ran a red ligh [...]

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority provides detailed information on healthcare providers throughout Pennsylvania, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and nursing homes. If you or a loved one needs medical care or will be staying in a nursing home, the Patient Safety Authority provides the following tips for choosing the best facility for your needs. The Patient Safety Authority and other regulatory [...]