{"id":915,"date":"2012-08-07T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:21","slug":"hospital-chain-inquiry-cited-unnecessary-cardiac-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The New York Times<\/strong>\u00a0| By <a title=\"More Articles by REED ABELSON\" rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/a\/reed_abelson\/index.html\">REED ABELSON<\/a> and <a title=\"More Articles by JULIE CRESWELL\" rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/julie_creswell\/index.html\">JULIE CRESWELL<\/a>\u00a0| <em>Published: August 6, 2012<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/adx\/bin\/adx_click.html?type=goto&amp;opzn&amp;page=www.nytimes.com\/yr\/mo\/day&amp;pos=Frame4A&amp;sn2=72270860\/53be7632&amp;sn1=b774522\/3efa8349&amp;camp=FSL2012_ArticleTools_120x60_1787508b_nyt5&amp;ad=BEMH_120x60_May4_NoText&amp;goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Fthebestexoticmarigoldhotel\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the company\u2019s hospitals in Florida.\u00a0 In a follow-up interview, the nurse said a doctor at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, in the small coastal city of Fort Pierce, had been performing heart procedures on patients who did not need them, putting their lives at risk.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/07\/business\/hospital-chain-internal-reports-found-dubious-cardiac-work.html?_r=1&amp;emc=na\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0| By REED ABELSON and JULIE CRESWELL\u00a0| Published: August 6, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=915\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[395,112,396],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-hca","tag-medical-ethics","tag-medical-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}