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Cerebral palsy is a severe surgical disorder that can be caused by fetal oxygen deprivation in the birthing process. Cerebral palsy can be associated with a lifetime of disability, assistance with activities of daily living and medical bills. Children with cerebral palsy must cope with a variety of problems in addition to impaired mobility, including:…

When most people think about medical malpractice, they think of surgical errors or patient neglect. A recent article in USA Today reports that a more fundamental error occurs in up to 5 percent of American hospitals and clinics: the use of dirty syringes. Experts say that approximately 150,000 patients are treated with dirty syringes annually….

Nursing home facilities have an obligation to properly monitor their residents and keep them safe. Although nursing homes are not prisons, nursing home staffs can be held responsible when they allow mentally frail patients to wander off premises without proper supervision. Skilled nursing facility residents suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s and a variety of other cognitive…

Communication breakdowns and inadequate note-taking seem to be primarily responsible for the nursing failures that led to a patient’s wrongful death at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The California Department of Public Health recently announced $75,000 in fines for the hospital arising out of this nursing negligence incident. The respiratory therapist responsible for the…

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center was recently fined $75,000 by the California Department of Public Health for a nursing malpractice incident that caused in a patient’s death. The patient was neglected and improperly transported within a hospital which resulted in his wrongful death. Nursing negligence is a common issue in many Bay Area hospitals and…

In our last post, we discussed the wrongful death of a Kaiser Hospital patient who was neglected by the nursing staff at the Oakland/Richmond Kaiser Foundation Hospital. An investigation by the California Department of Public Health indicated that an overworked nurse with inadequate backup was preoccupied with other patients as a man was experiencing cardiac…

A Bay area Kaiser hospital was recently fined $75,000 by the California Department of Public Health for a medical malpractice incident which resulted in a patient’s wrongful death. State safety regulators found that a Kaiser hospital failed to follow health and safety regulations and that this failure was directly linked to the patient’s death. The…