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UNCoRRELATED (Free subscription) | yesterday
Coverage mixed back home in the Windy City as the Barack jets around. A breathless Lynn Sweet with amazing photos !!! Be still my heart. Then there's the reality of the Obama Health Care Plan in Chicago. Chicago Sun Times : While on the county payroll, a top urologist at Cook County Hospital solicited nearly $1 million from drug companies over the last decade for his private foundation. Dr. Paul S....
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Kings County, NY - Most people see the district attorney as a person whose primary duty is to put criminals behind bars. Addressing a group of teen volunteers from Kings County Hospital, however, Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes said that his ultimate goal was to help children from ending up on the wrong side of [...]
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Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Two brothers who built a South Florida medical supply firm into one of the country's largest Hispanic-owned businesses cheated a Miami-Dade County hospital out of roughly $5 million and failed to pay taxes on more than $20 million of income, federal prosecutors allege. The U.S....
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Volunteers from Dixie State College delivered dozens of baby blankets to bundle newborns at both the Dixie Regional Medical Center and the Kane County Hospital as part of a service project.
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Two brothers who built a South Florida medical supply firm into one of the country's largest Hispanic-owned businesses cheated a Miami-Dade County hospital out of roughly $5 million and failed to pay taxes on more than $20 million of income, federal prosecutors claim.
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Two brothers who built a South Florida medical supply firm into one of the country's largest Hispanic-owned businesses cheated a Miami-Dade County hospital out of roughly $5 million and failed to pay taxes on more than $20 million of income, federal prosecutors claim.
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Two brothers who built a South Florida medical supply firm into one of the country's largest Hispanic-owned businesses cheated a Miami-Dade County hospital out of roughly $5 million and failed to pay taxes on more than $20 million of income, federal prosecutors allege.
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
A woman tells the Post that Kings County Hospital misidentified her father Rodney Wells and refused to change his name on his hospital ID bracelet. Staffers insisted on having ID to fix the mistake, so Reshena Wells went home to get one--all while her father was being treated for his heart attack--and while on the errand, Wells says "a doctor phoned to say he had died." Then her father was sent to...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The family of a Brooklyn man who died at Kings County Hospital Center says the staff misidentified him - despite repeated pleas to fix the goof - and sent him to the morgue under the wrong name. It happened at the same hospital where last month...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Rhode Island National Guard helicopters will land atop South County Hospital today and next week as part of an emergency training drill. The pilots will land twice in the late afternoon and once around 9 p.m.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'AA-' rating on approximately $78.4 million of St. Joseph County Hospital Authority, IN, health system revenue refunding bonds, series
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
By The Paducah Sun, Ky. Jul. 16--MURRAY, Ky. -- -- Murray-Calloway County Hospital's Center for Health & Wellness offers classes and education opportunities through July. A remaining prepared childbirth class at the health and wellness center classroom will be 6:30-8:30 p.m.
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
New York - The latest video that caught major media attention of a hospital security camera footage from June 18 that features a woman, who was allegedly suffering from psychosis and who was taken to Kings County Hospital Center involuntarily by emergency medical service workers. Due to a shortage of beds, she waited alone [...]
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Two Queens men are in custody after one of them fired at an off-duty police officer in Jamaica Sunday morning and then fled to a Nassau County hospital for treatment, police said.
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Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Cause of death was a PE. And yes, there is a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Some think maybe it's better if the hospital lost : Just like the Medicare cuts, part of me hopes that Kings County Hospital goes to trial, gets hit with the full $25 million judgment, and goes bankrupt. Close down Kings County Hospital so that the mentally ill people in these poor areas will be forced to percolate into more...
