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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

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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Newsletter, November 2022

Patient Safety Movement

Breanne Everett , CEO and President at Orpyx Medical, discusses the different types of diabetes, comorbidities associated with the disease, and the prevention and management of diabetes-related complications to improve patient quality of life and reduce healthcare costs. It considers patient safety integral to all these priorities.

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

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Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems.

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Federal Speech Rulings May Embolden Health Care Workers to Call Out Safety Issues

KHN

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems.

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

. – Jackson Parish Hospital in Jonesboro, Louisiana was awarded $442,144 for the purchase of telemedicine carts and remote-monitoring devices to allow providers to conduct telemedicine encounters and consult with specialists remotely by providing remote-viewing capabilities in each exam room. – Southeast, Inc. – St. .