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An NHS spokesman said: “These powers already exist and are utilised in a very small number of cases, and only when all other options to support a person’s discharge have been unsuccessful.
Here are the Kansas City area hospitals with the best and worst patient safety ratings for spring 2024, according to Leapfrog Group. See detailed grades for all area hospitals on the organization ...
The Leapfrog Group has announced that they will work with hospitals, health plans and consumer groups to advocate reducing payment for "never events", and will recognize hospitals that agree to certain steps when a serious avoidable adverse event occurs in the facility, including notifying the patient and patient safety organizations, and ...
COBRA was not a complete solution, and in the years after its passage, hospitals struggled with creating appropriate discharge protocols and the cost of providing health care for homeless patients. [14] Statistically, Texas and Illinois had the highest rates of patient dumping because of economic difficulties. [5]
CMS defines a hospital readmission as "an admission to an acute care hospital within 30 days of discharge from the same or another acute care hospital. [1]" It uses an "all-cause" definition, meaning that the cause of the readmission does not need to be related to the cause of the initial hospitalization.
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After witnessing what they believed to be unsafe medical care, nurses Anne Mitchell and Vicki Galle submitted an anonymous complaint against Dr. Rolando Arafiles to the Texas Medical Board (TMB). When he learned of the complaint, Arafiles spoke with the sheriff of Winkler County , alleging that the nurses' reports to the medical board ...
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series about Ashlynn Miles, a mentally ill Paso Robles woman who was picked up by a sex offender after she was released early from a county ...