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11 Jun 2012, 4:37 am by Jeff Marshall
Medicare is adopting new payment methods that reward medical providers for keeping patients healthy while curbing excessive spending. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 1:29 pm
Three boys and a woman were treated at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton and released, while a man was admitted in stable condition. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 4:17 am by David Harlow
  Sometimes it’s for the convenience of physicians, sometimes it’s for the perpetuation of august institutions - whatever it’s been, but it’s not always been that the patient’s been at the center of it. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 7:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
"  After the fight concluded, Ramirez was air-lifted to Geisinger Regional Medical Center, where he died of massive head injuries. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 12:22 pm by Bexis
We had the issue of when a lawyer can, and can’t, confer with his/her own witness during a deposition come up recently in one of our cases. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 3:15 am by Steve Lombardi
Author Affiliations: Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery (Dr Stahel), Neurosurgery (Dr Stahel), and Internal Medicine (Drs Boyle and Mehler), Denver Health Medical Center and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver; Department of Patient Safety and Quality, Denver Health Medical Center (Drs Sabel and Mehler); Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado (Dr Sabel); Colorado Physician Insurance Company, Denver (Drs Victoroff,… [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 2:16 am by Steve Lombardi
Author Affiliations: Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery (Dr Stahel), Neurosurgery (Dr Stahel), and Internal Medicine (Drs Boyle and Mehler), Denver Health Medical Center and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver; Department of Patient Safety and Quality, Denver Health Medical Center (Drs Sabel and Mehler); Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado (Dr Sabel); Colorado Physician Insurance Company, Denver (Drs Victoroff,… [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 5:00 am
Author Affiliations: Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery (Dr Stahel), Neurosurgery (Dr Stahel), and Internal Medicine (Drs Boyle and Mehler), Denver Health Medical Center and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver; Department of Patient Safety and Quality, Denver Health Medical Center (Drs Sabel and Mehler); Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado (Dr Sabel); Colorado Physician Insurance Company, Denver (Drs Victoroff,… [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 12:50 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
Geisinger Medical Center, is also one of its most notable for the impact it could have on expert witnesses.In that case's Sept. 29 opinion, the court, after having granted a rare re-argument on the issues presented, reaffirmed its own previous decision that nurses may testify as expert witnesses on causation issues in a negligence action in which it was asserted that a breach of the accepted nursing standard of care resulted in the patient's condition.More… [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 9:14 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
Geisinger Medical Center, 971 A.2d 1202, 1208 (Pa. 2009) that nurses could testify as experts where properly qualified to do so. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 12:51 pm by William Maruca
Christopher’s Hospital for Children •     Penn State Hershey Medical Center •     PinnacleHealth System •     Pocono Health System •     West Penn Allegheny Health System The program’s goal is the increased transferability of health information for pediatric patients across different health care providers and social service agencies, to improve the quality… [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 7:06 am by Daniel E. Cummins
., the agreed upon duty of the defendants to provide medical care to the plaintiff.In 2009, the Supreme Court also agreed to hear another important negligent infliction of emotional distress issue when it handed down its May 27, 2009, order granting allocatur in Schmidt v. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 6:20 am by Daniel E. Cummins
Geisinger Medical Center, 971 A.2d 1202 (Pa. 2009), the Court went against its prior ruling and now held that nurses should not be precluded from offering medical opinions when testifying as experts in a civil trial. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 8:50 am
The model is a critical component of future improvements to our health care system; Paul Grundy and the patient-centered medical home both deserve our close attention. [read post]
29 Aug 2009, 11:45 am
Geisinger Medical Center, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a nurse was qualified to testify as a medical malpractice expert witness. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 10:12 am
  The Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), a 2 1/2 year old consensus document produced by several medical societies, is a key starting point for any discussion of medical home implementation.As Thorpe noted on a conference call accompanying the release of the report today, the various bills wending their way through Congress address the medical home concept, allocating as much as $1.5 billion over 5 years (in the most… [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 5:13 pm
Geisinger Medical Center, 971 A.2d 1202 (Pa. 2009). [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 9:11 pm
  Bob Wachter, at Wachter's World, delves deeper into the problem, and says:I'm proud to say that over the past five years, my hospital (UCSF Medical Center) has taken Leape's challenge to heart, withdrawing clinical privileges (and filing accompanying NPDB reports) in several cases for behavior that, I'm quite confident, would have been tolerated a decade ago. [read post]