The federal government threatened to strip a key financial lifeline at the University of Chicago Medical Center after the death of Chicago business executive James Tyree, reflecting how seriously the government and health industry are dealing with medical errors. Following an investigation into Tyree's death, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in a public notice Wednesday that it was terminating U. of C.'s Medicare payments on April 28. It determined "deficiencies so serious they constitute an immediate threat to patient health and safety.
BANGOR - Anaphylaxis, the life-threatening condition that brought 51-year-old Timothy Harvey into the emergency department at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft earlier this month, is "the most severe and potentially deadly" of all allergic reactions, according to Dr. Eric Steele. Harvey, a resident of Atkinson, died early in the morning of June 5 - not from the anaphylactic reaction itself but from a tenfold overdose of epinephrine, the synthetic hormone that is the standard treatment for the condition. The cause of his death was released last week by the state medical examiner's office and by officials at the hospital. The incident is under investigation by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
TROY -- Jim Livingston, a former Miami County prosecutor, announced he'd run as an independent for Troy city law director following a candidate petition error that knocked current Law Director Grant Kerber off the ballot. The county Board of Elections in February ruled Kerber's candidate petitions had a "fatal" error because he did not sign one part petition. The error disqualified him from the ballot. Kerber, a Republican-appointed law director when long time Law Director Greg Dixon became a judge in 2009, said he was disappointed that the technical issue prevented his candidacy.
Pero a esta afirmación, se sumó otra emitida por funcionarios de la CEPAL, quienes expresaron que el endurecimiento de las medidas migratorias en Estados Unidos tendría un "impacto dramático" sobre las remesas y la economía de América Latina, la región en desarrollo que menos crecerá en 2006. Representantes de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) indicaron que los países centro-americanos serían los más afectados por una eventual restricción migratoria en Estados Unidos, debido a la alta incidencia de las remesas que envían los inmigrantes en el Producto Interno Bruto. "Un endurecimiento de la política migratoria tendría un impacto dramático en las economías más limitadas de Latinoamérica y acentuaría las condiciones de pobreza que persisten en la región", argum...
It's a situation that turns the typical personal injury lawsuit timeline on its head: Hospital officials admit upfront that an employee made a potentially harmful or fatal error. It releases data on the exact number of affected people and the cause of the error. Perhaps most important, they say they are "deeply sorry. So what's a plaintiffs attorney to do?
Passengers on Comair 5191 probably never realized something was terribly wrong with their takeoff Sunday from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., until the last few seconds, when the plane abruptly ran out of pavement and, with far too little support beneath its wings, crashed into a stand of trees and exploded into flames. All but one aboard were killed. The accident never should have happened, even at Blue Grass Airport, where construction work may have caused confusion. The main runway, 22, had just been repaved; one of the taxiways was not yet back in service, and some of the lights on 22 were said to be not working. Flight 5191 had headed down the wrong runway, 26, which had no lights and was too short by half for even a small jetliner like the Bombardier CRJ-100, with 50 souls a...
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The Allegheny County Emergency Services Department suspended a dispatcher and is investigating at least two others for errors handling recent 911 calls, including two incidents in which people died, a department official said Tuesday. County Executive Dan Onorato said through a spokeswoman he is "obviously concerned" about the mistakes. He attributed them to human errors inputing addresses, not flaws with the computer-aided dispatch system the county spent $10 million upgrading.
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