By: The Editorial Board, Source: The NY Times, Originally Published: 7.25.16 To support a revision of the proposed rule so that families aren’t being taken advantage of by forced arbitration clauses, sign on to Consumer Voice’s letter here. People entering nursing homes need to know that all reasonable safeguards are in place to ensure quality care. But federal
By: Margot Roosevelt, Source: Military.com In November 2012, about 40 employees of BLB Resources, an Irvine real estate firm, gathered in a room festooned with balloons to celebrate a colleague who was deploying to Afghanistan. Kevin Ziober, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve, dug into a cake decorated with an American flag and the
By: Kenneth Rothfield, Source: OR Excellence. A conversation with OR Excellence speaker Kenneth P. Rothfield, MD, MBA, CPE, CPPS It’s disheartening, says anesthesiologist and patient safety expert Kenneth P. Rothfield, MD, MBA, CPE, CPPS, how little patient safety has improved during his lifetime. More than 400,000 U.S. citizens die from preventable medical errors each year.
Compiled by: Schuyler Kropf and Brenda Rindge, Source: Post and Courier. S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Costa Pleicones let out his frustration in an email where he chided the poor treatment of the state’s judicial branch at the hands of Statehouse budget writers. In a note to lawyer-legislators and those preparing to take office, Pleicones
On a blistering summer afternoon in Tucson, Arizona, nearly 11 years ago, a truck driver named Carl Koch stood near the back of his tanker as it was being filled with molten tar at an asphalt plant. Suddenly a hose connection broke loose, spraying him with hot, gooey liquid. Blobs of 300-degree tar hit Koch,
ABC News had an interesting article about the decline in the use of alarms as a means of fall prevention. The change is part of a nationwide movement to phase out personal alarms and other long-used fall prevention measures in favor of more proactive, preventative care. Without alarms, facilities need staff to better learn residents’