http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hospitals/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:48:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417049/posts About 75 of the 127 physician-owned hospitals under construction won't meet an Aug. 1, 2010 deadline on expansion requirements in the revised Senate health reform bill, according to an informal count by Physician Hospitals of America. The current Senate bill prohibits physician-owned hospitals from adding beds, ORs or procedure rooms, and the same language exists in the House bill. Both bills state that physician-owned hospitals must meet four specific requirements to expand. PHA officials say no physician-owned hospital meet all four criteria. Even with a six-month extension past the original deadline of Feb. 1, 2010, PHA Executive Director Molly Sandvig... Healthcare Finance News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417049/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:48:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415182/posts An al Qaida-linked suspect who allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic plane is studying at a UK university, it has been reported. The Nigerian is accused of trying to detonate a powdery substance on a plane from Amsterdam as it prepared to land at Detroit with 278 people on board. US sources said he was subdued by passengers and has since claimed to have been acting for al Qaida. He has been named by ABC News as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, an engineering student at University College London, with the broadcaster citing US government documents. The suspect, who has... This is London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415182/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:17:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413604/posts The Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, one of the nation’s most highly regarded academic hospitals, has earned a reputation as a place where doctors will go to virtually any length and expense to try to save a patient’s life. “If you come into this hospital, we’re not going to let you die,” said Dr. David T. Feinberg, the hospital system’s chief executive. Yet that ethos has made the medical center a prime target for critics in the Obama administration and elsewhere who talk about how much money the nation wastes on needless tests and futile procedures. They like to note... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413604/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:44:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2367848/posts (PDF Format) Free Congress Foundation Commentary The Major Incurable Disease – Tort Terror By Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq. October 21, 2009 Unlike other countries, our Federal system and many of our State judicial systems encourage litigation against physicians and hospitals. The practice of medicine is almost unimaginatively sophisticated, as applicable knowledge continually becomes more complicated and more extensive. FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION - Free Congress Foundation Commentaries http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2367848/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:15:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366428/posts ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A proposed state guideline for dealing with an influenza pandemic is causing quite a stir. The Florida Department of Health is proposing that health care providers, notably hospitals, pull the plug on the most critically-ill patients in order to treat "healthier" patients. Fox Orlando http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366428/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366065/posts Nurses Plan Strike Over Swine Flu Conditions At Hospitals October 19, 2009 More than 16,000 registered nurses are locked in a contract dispute with officials at 37 Catholic hospitals statewide and plan to strike Oct. 30 out of concern that the hospitals’ lax safety standards put them at risk of catching H1N1 flu. The California Nurses Assn., which is in bargaining talks with San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West hospitals, announced the strike this morning. Local hospitals expected to be affected include California Hospital Medical Center, St. Vincent Medical Center, Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center, St. Mary Medical Center in... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366065/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:59:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365972/posts Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases. Propublica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365972/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:51:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365488/posts Excerpt Florida Sun Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365488/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:30:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356097/posts Patient Dumping is the practice of dumping those that cannot afford medical services or those that would burden the system onto other medical care providers. At the University of Chicago Medical Center, patient dumping appears to be a routine practice. In 2002, Michelle Obama became the Executive Director for Community Affairs at UCMC. Interestingly, Susan Sher, who hired Michelle for the UCMC gig, currently serves as Michelle Obama's chief of staff at the White House. Shortly after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Michelle received a promotion to become the Vice President for Community and External... NetRight Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356097/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2333911/posts Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others Impulse control problems Irresponsibility Inability to tolerate boredom Pathological narcissism Shallow affect Deceitfulness/manipulativeness Aggressive or violent tendencies, repeated physical fights or assaults on others Lack of empathyLack of remorse, indifferent to or rationalizes having hurt or mistreated others A sense of extreme entitlement Lack of or diminished levels of anxiety/nervousness and other emotions Promiscuous sexual behavior, sexually deviant lifestyle Lack of personal insight The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2333911/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:25:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2322063/posts The uninsured are frequently vilified as “free riders” who receive care but shift the cost onto others—when they are not being portrayed as victims who don’t get as much medical care as some think they should. Thus they deserve punishment by higher taxes if they don’t accept their “individual responsibility” to buy costly insurance—or else public subsidies to buy “coverage” (instead of public payment for care actually received). The problem is purportedly magnified by overuse of the more costly emergency room by uninsured patients who delayed care they should have gotten sooner from a lower-cost primary physician. In fact, the... Association of American Physicians and Surgeons http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2322063/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:16:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2319908/posts MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A dozen New Jersey hospitals are paying doctors as an incentive to save the hospitals money. hostednews/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2319908/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318555/posts Health Care: Lost in the kerfuffle about a pro-choice president being honored at the University of Notre Dame was the damage the Freedom of Choice Act might do to the nation's health care.Specifically, how many Catholic hospitals will close and how many Catholic doctors will quit if it becomes law? According to the Catholic Health Association, Catholic institutions make up 13% of the nation's nearly 5,000 hospitals, and employ more than 600,000 people. CHA says one of every six Americans hospitalized in the U.S. are cared for in a Catholic hospital. A lot of federal funds flow through the nation's... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318555/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:43:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301293/posts <p>The case against a South Florida hospital that quietly chartered a plane and sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala over the objections of his family and legal guardian was in the hands of a jury Thursday.</p> Startribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301293/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:39:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300542/posts Health Reform: If Democrats in Washington think their health care reform with a public option is a good thing, why have they exempted themselves from it? Why isn't what's good for their constituents good for them?During ABC's June 24 infomercial for government-run health care broadcast from the White House, President Obama was asked if he and his family would abide by the restrictions and limitations that came with his proposed reforms. In what Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com called "Obama's Michael Dukakis moment," President Obama refused to make such a pledge and confessed that if "it's my family member, if it's... IBD Editorial http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300542/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:44:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300143/posts The civil case against a Florida hospital draws to a close this week. A relative of an illegal alien sued Martin Memorial Medical Center when it repatriated the man after treating him for nearly three years at an un-reimbursed cost of $1.5 million. The relative/legal guardian wants an unspecified six-figure judgment for alleged false imprisonment and nearly $1 million in economic damages for the medical care he has not received since 2003. That’s when Martin Memorial paid $30,000 to charter a jet to take Luis Jimenez to a medical facility in Guatemala. Jimenez now lives with his mother. Carol Plato,... Digital Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300143/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:25:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299504/posts While Barack Obama presses for health-care reform, Sean Hannity looks at his wife’s efforts to reform medical care at the University of Chicago Medical Center as its vice-president. In a lengthy segment on last night’s show, Hannity reports on the Urban Health Initiative, a program ostensibly intended to provide the kind of change in health care that President Obama says his program will deliver nationally — fewer emergency room vists, better wellness and prevention care, and lower costs. However, the people in Chicago see the UHI differently. In practice, it looks more like a patient-dumping scheme to avoid dealing with... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299504/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:38:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287300/posts The nation's hospitals agreed last night to contribute $155 billion over 10 years toward the cost of insuring the 47 million Americans without health coverage, according to two industry sources. The agreement that three hospital associations reached with White House officials and leaders of the Senate Finance Committee is the latest in a series of side deals that aim to reduce the cost of revamping the nation's health-care system and to neutralize influential industries that have historically opposed such reforms... Most of the savings -- about $100 billion -- would come through lower-than-expected Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals, said... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287300/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:34:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286802/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - With health care legislation at a crossroads, the nation's hospitals are near agreement with a key lawmaker and the White House to pick up part of the cost of President Barack Obama's plan for expanded coverage, officials said Monday. The precise size of the deal was not available, although several days ago, talks were focused in the range of $150 billion to $155 billion over a decade. These officials said under the emerging agreement, hospitals would accept lower-than-anticipated payments under Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health care programs for seniors and the poor. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286802/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:55:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2260773/posts DAVIE, Fla. — When the sharp pain shooting through Lisa Strong's back got worse, she thought it was another kidney stone and expected the discomfort to pass. This time was different. Through a series of mistakes, miscommunications and misdiagnoses, she wound up having her arms and legs amputated. She sued the doctors, who essentially blamed one another for what everyone involved agrees were profound errors. Everyone except the jury that ruled against Strong. FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2260773/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 19:31:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276424/posts A Tucson hospital's health-care package promises affluent Mexican women the chance to have their babies in posh surroundings with access to the latest medical equipment. But the marketing materials leave out a key draw in the arrangement: U.S. citizenship for the newborn. Tucson Medical Center's "birth package" gives an official nod to a generations-old practice of wealthy Mexican women coming to U.S. hospitals to give birth. Mexican families do the same thing at all local hospitals, but TMC is the only one actively recruiting their business. The practice is legal, but offensive to some advocates of tougher U.S. immigration standards. Arizona Daily Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276424/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276457/posts For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off. Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate. It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but disappear. He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the prostate, investigators... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276457/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:37:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271074/posts The White House said Saturday that President Obama intends to pay for his health care overhaul partly by cutting more than $200 billion in expected reimbursements to hospitals over the next decade — a proposal that is likely to provoke a backlash from cash-strapped medical institutions around the country. Mr. Obama has insisted that his plan will not add to the federal deficit, and he had already set aside in his budget what he calls a $635 billion “down payment” toward the overall 10-year cost of the overhaul, which is expected to top $1 trillion. But Republicans and some Democratic... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271074/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:06:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2240974/posts A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat. The worm, known as "Conficker," has not harmed any patients, they say, but it poses a potential threat to hospital operations. "A few weeks ago, we discovered medical devices, MRI machines, infected with Conficker," said Marcus Sachs, director of the Internet Storm Center, an early warning system for Internet threats that is operated by the SANS Institute. mercurynews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2240974/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240418/posts Doctors and hospitals would see big changes in how they're paid and what they're expected to do under proposals lawmakers will consider Wednesday as they narrow options for health care legislation. Senators on the Finance Committee will meet behind closed doors to review policy options aimed at making medical providers more accountable for the quality of care. Right now, providers are mainly paid for the number of services they perform, from office visits to tests and procedures. Changes are also in the works for private insurance plans that serve seniors on Medicare, as well as nursing homes, home health agencies... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240418/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:30:48 GMT