The quality of healthcare in smaller California communities is a growing concern. Recently 50 seniors and nurses from Manteca went to Kaiser Permanente Corporate Headquarters in Oakland to protest what they call substandard service at the city’s Kaiser Hospital. The seniors and nurses held a vigil that included photos of individuals who were purportedly harmed…
In our last post we discussed the fact that only one in seven medical malpractice incidents are reported by the Hospitals where they occur; this means Hospital keep under wraps roughly 84 percent of injurious medical errors. The issue of underreporting was revealed in a study conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services…
A new report by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services indicates that most hospital errors go unreported. The study found that only one in seven hospital errors which harmed patients were reported. Even more worrisome was that even when hospitals did investigate the few medical malpractice incidents that were reported,…
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