Category Archives: Patient Safety Activism
Cromwell, Milford Nursing Homes Among Six Penalized By DPH
January 17, 2012A Cromwell nursing home faces a fine from the state Department of Public Health for failing to properly monitor the food and fluid intake of a resident whose weight plummeted,
Project Puts Records in the Patients’ Hands
January 10, 2012“The medical record is information that really belongs to the patient, but it’s treated like a classified document,” said Susan B. Frampton, president of Planetree, a nonprofit organization based in
Bring Health Care Home
January 10, 2012Patients who are treated at home by a doctor and nursing staff who know them intimately and can be available 24/7 are happier and healthier. This kind of care decreases
F.D.A. Orders Surgical Mesh Makers to Study Risks
January 5, 2012The New York Times, By BARRY MEIER, Published: January 4, 2012 The Food and Drug Administration issued an order on Wednesday requiring makers of implantable surgical mesh used to treat
Secrecy protects doctors with long histories of problems
December 19, 2011Buried deep in a federal database is Practitioner No. 222117, perhaps the most frequently disciplined doctor in America. This doctor has been accused of violating drug laws, prescribing unauthorized medications,
CT-DPH ADVERSE EVENT REPORTING
December 13, 2011CT Department of Public Health LEGISLATIVE REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Adverse Event Reporting General Statutes of Connecticut Section 19a-127l-n QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE PROGRAM OCTOBER 2011 Jewel Mullen, MD,
31 Organizations Call for Safe Drug Manufacturing Reforms – Nov. 29 2011
December 2, 2011CTCPS joins 30 other organizations in a call for Safe Drug Manufacturing Reforms Late yesterday, thirty advocacy organizations, representing seniors, labor, providers, patient safety advocates, cancer patients, and consumers joined
Patients Get More Unnecessary Scans from Doctors Who Own Equipment
December 1, 2011More and more physicians are investing in their own imaging equipment. But when a doctor stands to make money on each MRI he or she orders, it doesn’t take a
You Have to Wonder
February 2, 2010I was on line early this morning and checking the Smith Nephew, DePuy, Zimmer and Stryker websites. These are medical device makers – like knees, hips – and due to
Patient safety advocate, Mike Moran's sermon on medical negligence
November 2, 2009Reverand Mike Moran went to DC with the Center for Justice and Democracy to talk to our Congressional delegation about medical negligence. Here is the sermon he wrote when he returned home.