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22 Jan 2010, 5:00 am by Rosenbaum & Associates
The lives of veterans stricken with prostate cancer were put at serious risk by botched radiation treatments performed at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center between 2003 and 2008. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 12:43 pm
Medical Center gave incorrect radiation doses to 92 veterans treating for prostate cancer during a six year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 8:10 am
The NYTIMES reported over the weekend, that a Veteran's Affair Medical Center, located in Philadelphia, PA, had a "rogue cancer unit … that operated with virtually no outside scrutiny and botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments over a span of more than six years â€â [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 9:51 am
$ 91.7 million was paid for more than 400 medical malpractice claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2012. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 11:30 am by Christopher T. Hurley
Harmful errors in radiation given to 97 veterans with prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center have been in the news for months, but this week the Department of Veterans Affairs was fined $227,500 as a result of these egregious errors. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 3:08 am by Robert Kraft
Bloomberg News reports that Christopher Ellison “went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007,” but what “should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 2:56 pm by Christopher T. Hurley
The AP reports, “six more cases have been found of cancer patients being given incorrect radiation doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia” (FindLaw News citing to the Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/18). [read post]
11 Jul 2010, 9:16 am
The Philadelphia Enquirer discussed another example of inadequate medical care at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 7:34 am
Kao is the only person whom officials have identified in the unfolding scandal over substandard radioactive seed implants at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 5:46 pm by Rosenbaum & Associates
A patient in the Community Living Center at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center left one elderly veteran patient unattended for so long that maggots had infested his foot wound. [read post]
12 May 2010, 8:30 pm by Mark Zamora
Daniel Weintraub of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, whose study appears in the Archives of Neurology. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 11:33 am by Rosenbaum & Associates
Shelton was 93 when he was admitted to the Norman Veterans Center, which is run by the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs. [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 3:28 pm
James Bagian, head of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for Patient Safety, said: "Anybody that is supposed to report close calls and has zero reports is clueless; Management is asleep at the switch and just waiting until they kill someone. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 1:01 pm by Joe Consumer
Allegations of using cheaper drugs at the 40-bed Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Beckley, W.Va., surfaced last year, triggering an internal investigation by the agency's Office of the Medical Inspector. [read post]
26 May 2021, 6:00 am by Jane Turner
” She was posted at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 12:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
West Philadelphia is a public high school serving one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Center for Public Integrity – Dave Levinthal | Published: 9/11/2019 The FEC no longer has enough members to conduct high-level business. [read post]