Transfer from hospital to nursing home risky for patients
When geriatric patients in New York and around the country return to their nursing homes after a hospitalization, they enter a danger zone for medical errors. When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services studied data from 2014 about these patient transfers, researchers discovered that close to 25 percent of the people with complicated medical conditions experienced harm within a few days after returning to their nursing facilities. Inadequate follow-up care or monitoring and medication mistakes accounted for the majority of these incidents.
A Look at Workers’ Comp Appeals: Are They Successful for Workers?
Injured workers in New York should be able to receive medical coverage and certain other benefits after work injuries or illnesses occur. Unfortunately, there are circumstances in which injured workers have their claims denied and are not provided with the benefits that they deserve. There are also situations in which a worker is denied coverage […]
When Should Workplace Deaths Lead to Criminal Actions?
When a Virginia CEO was sentenced to a year of imprisonment after his company’s safety failures were found to have caused the deaths of 29 miners, the story made headlines. The story was newsworthy not because he got such a short sentence of one year for 29 deaths, but because it was so unusual for […]
Medical diagnoses in the hands of computers
People depend on doctors to provide reliable health care. Unfortunately, many individuals across New York and the rest of the United States are faced with misdiagnoses every year. This leads to patients undergoing sometimes expensive and dangerous treatments that do them no good.
BRONX: Carmen Puello Killed In Car Accident After School Bus Ran Her Over By West Fordham Road near Sedgwick Avenue In University Heights
FATAL BUS ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION BRONX, NEW YORK (October 24, 2016) A 43-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a yellow school bus as she was crossing the street in University Heights, according to ABC New. Police have been able to identify the woman that died in the crash as Carmen Puello. Authorities are saying […]
HARFORD: Alicia Stocks Killed In Car Accident After Semi-Truck Caused Rear End Collision on Interstate 81
HARFORD, PENSYLVANIA (October 24, 2016) A woman and her two children were killed in a tragic truck accident after the car that she was driving was rear-ended by a tractor trailer, according to ABC News. Authorities have been able to identify the woman that died as Alicia Stocks. State police are saying that the big rig […]
MANHATTAN: Bella-Yury Krementsova Dead After MTA Bus Accident By Trinity and Exchange
BUS DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER FATAL CRASH MANHATTAN, NEW YORK (October 22, 2016) A woman was killed in a tragic MTA bus accident after the driver struck her and dragged her for several blocks, according to ABC News. Authorities have been able to identify the woman that died as Bella-Yury Krementsova. The accident happened on Friday evening […]
MANHATTAN: Bella-Yury Krementsova Killed In MTA Bus Crash Near Broadway After Being Dragged Several Blocks
FATAL ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION MANHATTAN, NEW YORK (October 22, 2016) A pedestrian was killed in a fatal bus accident after a QM7 MTA bus crashed into her at Trinity Place and Exchange Place, according to ABC News. Police have been able to identify the woman that died as Bella-Yury Krementsova. According to the New York Police Department Bella-Yury […]
MANHATTAN: Woman Killed In MTA Bus Accident After Being Dragged Several Blocks by Whitehall and State Street
BUS DRIVER MAY BE LIABLE FOR FATAL MTA BUS CRASH MANHATTAN, NEW YORK (October 22, 2016) A woman was killed in a tragic bus accident after an MTA driver hit her and dragged her for several blocks by Whitehall and State Street, according to ABC News. Authorities have still not been able to identify the victim. […]
Misdiagnosing cancer in children
September was Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in New York as well as across the country and around the world. The purpose of this annual event is to provide parents and caregivers with information about the different types of cancers that children can contract as well as to raise funds for research and support.