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Two recent legal decisions signal a change in the way courts will view arbitration provisions, says Elliot Zemel, JD, an associate at the law firm of Fenton Nelson in Los Angeles.
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News: A 34-year-old woman, then 36 weeks pregnant, presented to Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Philadelphia in August 2008 with signs of placental abruption. Fetal monitoring was inconclusive. A nurse and the obstetrician performed a bedside ultrasound examination and were unable to detect a fetal heartbeat. The obstetrician sought an ultrasound technician's confirmation of his diagnosis of fetal death; however, it took 75 minutes for the ultrasound technician to arrive.
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Six health care organizations have come together with one strong message: Be careful in your design of wellness incentives so that they don't treat some employees unfairly or restrict access to health insurance.
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For weeks, 25-year-old Richard Din worked long hours in the lab, hoping for a research breakthrough. At the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, he was a research laboratory associate on a project to develop a vaccine against Neisseria meningitides serogroup B. But instead of saving lives, Din became a victim of the deadly organism.
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Health care workers who received the acellular pertussis vaccine as children may have little immunity as adults, a new study suggests.
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Sharps injuries from suture needles aren't necessarily happening in the operating room. As Sinai Health System in Chicago discovered, they may occur during the insertion of central lines or other procedures outside the OR. And they can be prevented.
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Your hospital may be causing your workers pain and not just for the reasons you think. Job stress, including harassment from coworkers or unsupportive supervisors, contributes to musculoskeletal pain and injury and a host of other problems, according to a growing body of research.
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Hospitals should provide medical monitoring of employees who work with hazardous drugs, but they don't need to conduct periodic blood tests or urinalysis, according to new recommendations from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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In recent years, there has been a push for hospitals to receive organs from donors who are not technically brain dead.
