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If you're serious about assessing security and taking the right steps to thwart infant abductions, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, VA, offers direct assistance.
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Local attorneys are criticizing a Pennsylvania hospital's use of a medical waiver that asks patients to sign away their right to a jury trial in the event of malpractice.
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Controversy has interrupted after an attempted organ transplant at a California hospital, with several groups investigating whether a doctor attempted to hasten a patient's death so that his organs could be harvested.
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The informed consent process is a linchpin of health care risk management, but even the most earnest efforts to fully detail the risks of treatment can be for naught if the patient simply can't understand what you're saying or what is written.
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During a routine visit to her primary care physician, a patient had abnormal EKG results and was sent to the emergency department.
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Most risk managers are prepared to respond to a disaster in their communities, but what do you do when your facility is the disaster?
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When patients were evacuated from Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, after an F3 tornado hit on March 1, 2007, a temporary treatment center was set up next to the shelter area inside the town's First Baptist Church.
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When Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, was severely damaged by an F3 tornado, one thing they didn't have to worry about was keeping their web page updated with disaster information.
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A former patient has revived a lawsuit accusing the Duke University Health System (DUHS) in Durham, NC, of negligence related to an incident in which surgical instruments were mistakenly washed in used hydraulic fluid from the hospital elevators instead of sterilizing fluid.
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The family of a songwriter has filed a lawsuit against a New York City hospital alleging that the elderly man died of starvation after the hospital lost his dentures.
