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20 Dec 2014, 8:53 am
Panelists: · Ellen Fox, MD - President and CEO at Integrated Ethics Consulting LLC; formerly Chief Officer, Ethics in Health Care, Department of Veterans Affairs · Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM - Case Western Reserve University School of Law · Rebecca C. [read post]
29 Nov 2014, 4:30 pm
Open communication channels between hospitals, nursing assistants, nurses in charge, directors and administrators, and other staff is the key to keeping problems from becoming too serious. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 12:24 pm
The Guidance states that when the media or other other party not involved un the patient’s care asks the Covered Entity for information about a particular patient by name, a hospital or other health care facility may release limited facility directory information to acknowledge an individual is a patient at the facility and provide basic information about the patient’s condition in general terms (e.g., critical or stable, deceased, or treated and released) if the patient… [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 11:56 am
Less than two weeks later, the injured worker received follow-up care at a local Veterans Administration facility. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 8:20 am
The Telegraph tells us about Peter Kassig, also known as Abdul-Rahman Kassig, an American veteran who is being held captive by ISIS. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 8:59 am
Shortcomings in health care delivery at Veterans Health Administration (VA) clinics and hospitals have been much in the news for the past year. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 6:57 pm
If prosecution was declined, we provided documented results of our investigation to VA’s senior management for appropriate administrative action. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 10:43 am
Today, however, bombs fell on a major hospital in Gaza, resulting in a number of casualties. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 7:14 pm
Antibiotic therapy ran almost constantly while he was hospitalized, with the regular administration of Zosyn, Vancomycin, and Ciprofloxacin by central line. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 9:28 am
He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead in less than two hours. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:05 pm
Congress responds to Veterans Administration health care scandal by throwing huge new sums at care [Nicole Kaeding, Chris Edwards, Cato] “Every Senior V.A. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 7:44 am
“I believe that the FBI needs to be investigating the Temple VA facility for criminal activities, and the Veterans Affairs Administration needs to be investigating the facility as well to administer cultural and bureaucratic reforms,” Carter said in a release. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 12:47 am
In other news on veterans' care, a Kansas senator pushes the administration to keep a pilot project offering some of that same flexibility in rural areas and the White House is turning to experts for help in picking a new leader for the VA.Politico: House VA Bill AdvancesThe House moved closer on Tuesday to giving veterans stuck on federal wait lists for medical care the freedom to visit private providers. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 5:31 pm
According to a recently released study by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership (P3) may be the most effective method to deliver a proposed expansion of the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center (SFVAMC) – but there are some barriers that need clearing. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 5:34 am
He relinquished his prescription license since, he said, it wasn’t required for his part-time job conducting surgery at a Veterans Affairs hospital. [read post]
30 May 2014, 12:26 pm
President Barack Obama announces that US veterans hospitals have "computer systems for scheduling that date back to the '90s. [read post]
30 May 2014, 7:09 am
Yesterday, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki publicly apologized for widespread mismanagement and long treatment delays at V.A. hospitals. [read post]
29 May 2014, 10:38 am
Griffin, the acting inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs, confirming that VA administrators “manipulated medical waiting lists at one and possibly more hospitals” and that “1,700 patients at the veterans medical center in Phoenix were not placed on the official waiting list for doctors’ appointments and may never have received care. [read post]
28 May 2014, 1:10 pm
In 2009, at the height of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee of experts to develop national guidance for use by state and local public health officials and health-sector agencies and institutions in establishing and… [read post]
23 May 2014, 10:13 am
Drug Dealing at VA Hospital: A Veterans Administration police officer has accused officials at the VA hospital in Miami of covering up crimes including physical abuse and drug dealing. [read post]
