Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0%

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A qualitative study with Black women working as nurses in a public hospital in Johannesburg demonstrated social and economic dependence on women’s health even prior to the pandemic. The post The Feminist Political Economy of Health Justice appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

NATIONAL DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH Like many other health concerns that were overshadowed these past two-plus years, diabetes is still growing at an epidemic rate in the US, affecting more than 37 million adults and children nationwide. These include kidney disease, vision loss, heart disease, foot problems, and stroke.

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NASHP

AUGUST 26, 2021

Partnering, the state is managing contact tracing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assisting by providing some staff. Contracting , private-sector staff will work with local health departments. Led and implemented by the state’s Centers for Disease C ontrol and Prevention. Centralized. Centralized.

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