City officials are warning that the old hospital building in Ketchikan is deteriorating and likely will collapse, perhaps as early as this winter if nothing is done. The City Council is expected Thursday to consider declaring the building a public …
Federal inspection reports show a major Los Angeles, Calif., hospital had unclean and unsafe operating rooms and failed to protect its patients from possible infection. The documents, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, say operating rooms at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center …
Five people were taken to hospitals after a hayride accident near the western Missouri town of Oak Grove. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that the accident happened Saturday night when a car rear-ended the tractor on Missouri Route H …
State officials have agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to settle two medical malpractice lawsuits stemming from treatments at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2004. The State Appeals Board on Monday approved a $300,000 settlement in the case of …
Contra Costa County will pay nearly $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a knife-waving man who was shot by sheriff’s deputies in an emergency room. The Contra Costa Times says the settlement was approved by county …
A Hamilton family has been awarded a $7 million judgment by a Suffolk Superior Court jury that determined a doctor and a nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston were negligent in the death of their premature daughter. …
Vermont’s largest hospital has acknowledged errors were made in the treatment of a 20-year-old Burlington man who had been hit by a car in his wheelchair, but was released from the hospital and died hours later. An autopsy determined Zachary …
Fire officials say 12 people staying a Norman hotel were taken to a hospital after breathing toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Deputy Fire Chief Jim Bailey says the fire department was called late Monday after a 3-year-old child fell ill …
Exeter Hospital has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a former nurse who said she was fired after claiming medical procedures were not being properly followed in the hospital’s endoscopy unit. Hospital officials earlier this year denied any wrongdoing …
The parents of a child who died last year at Nebraska Medical Center after an overdose of blood thinner have sued the Omaha hospital, alleging that the mistake caused excruciating pain and the girl’s death. Greg and Kenya Duque of …