MORE ON: patient safety

Wherever the developmentally disabled live, abuse is their neighbor. It comes as deliberate assault by caregivers and sometimes relatives. It comes as acts of frustration, when people exhausted from the relentless difficulties of caring for patients with intellectual disabilities shove and hit... + read more

Doctors at a Southern California clinic have announced that they are “licensed and trained” to perform a stem cell treatment pioneered by a Colorado group that is being sued by the U.S. Justice Department and Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has asked a federal judge to stop... + read more

California public health authorities released a ream of documents reflecting reports by hospitals on infections that crop up during patient stays. The reports are part of a nationwide effort to shed light on the deadly – but preventable – infections that are estimated to occur in 5... + read more

Although California regulators don’t have to publicly post a number of hospital-related reports until 2015, a critical mass of information is starting to take shape. On Monday I posted spreadsheets provided by the Department of Public Health that list fines the state has levied against... + read more