Working At The Winkler County Hospital For More Than 20 Years

This case involves a physician, Dr. Burditt, who had disregarded the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). This act was implemented to prevent “Medicare-participating hospital from “dumping” patients out of the emergency room” (Pozgar, 2016, p. 245). In this case, Dr. Burditt had had examined the patient and made the decision to transfer her to another hospital that was located quite a distance away. When the patient was evaluated, it was noted that she had “dangerously high blood pressure (210/130) and was in active labor with ruptured membranes” (Pozgar, 2016, p. 245). Dr. Burditt should have continued to treat this patient because of her symptoms, which could have resulted in the death

An experienced nurse Julie Thao was taking care of 16-yeas old Jasmine Gant who was about t give a birth. Thao is accused of making a mistake that had terrible and tragic result on the life of a pregnant teenage, unborn child, Gant’s family, health care, and Thao’s life. Thao mistakenly gave Gant an epidural anesthetic intravenously instead of an IV antibiotic for a strep infection. Within minutes of receiving the epidural IV, Gant suffered seizures and died. Her child, a boy, was delivered by emergency Caesarean section and survived. So what caused this tragedy to happen? According to investigation, Thao improperly removed the epidural bag from a locked storage system without authorization, she did not scan the bar code, which would have told

The plaintiff in Ard v. East Jefferson General Hospital, stated on 20 May, she had rang the nurses station to inform the nursing staff that her husband was experiencing symptoms of nausea, pain, and shortness of breathe. After ringing the call button for several times her spouse received his medication. Mrs. Ard noticed that her husband continued to have difficulty breathing and ringing from side to side, the patient spouse rang the nursing station for approximately an hour and twenty-five minutes until the defendant (Ms. Florscheim) enter the room and initiated a code blue, which Mr. Ard didn’t recover. The expert witness testified that the defendant failed to provide the standard of care concerning the decease and should have read the physician’s progress notes stating patient is high risk upon assessment and observation. The defendant testified she checked on the patient but no documentation was noted. The defendant expert witness disagrees with breech of duty, which upon cross-examination the expert witness agrees with the breech of duty. The district judge, upon judgment, the defendant failed to provide the standard of care (Pozgar, 2012, p. 215-216) and award the plaintiff for damages from $50,000 to $150,000 (Pozgar, 2012, p. 242).

While the seriousness of a patient’s death should be investigated, the hospital failed to act promptly and investigate the supervisor’s or human resource (HR) department’s denial of reasonable accommodations or the previous errors made by the nurse. Therefore, the wrongful termination seems more likely to have been the case in this situation. The defense will show that rather than terminating her employment earlier the hospital waited until something catastrophic happened. The nurse took appropriate action discussing her health condition diagnosed by her physician that precludes her from working in the ER at full capacity with her supervisor. The nurse should have been given alternative assignments as appropriate or disability leave if no other alternative was available and should not have been terminated wrongfully after the incident (Pozgar,

This case involves Mr. Horton, his wife, and his mother in law. While Mr. Horton was a patient at Niagara fall memorial medical center the nurses noted in his medical records that he was dizzy, confused and unable to focus. Horton was in a two story private room with a window

The event that essentially precipitated the criminal charges against Ann Mitchell and Vicki Galle was when they reported the unsafe medical practices of Dr. Ronaldo Arafiles. They stood up for many of Dr. Rolando Arafiles patients and their rights. They felt as if Dr. Arafiles was not providing standard care for his patients. After they filed an anonymous complaint to the Texas Medical Board (TMB), Winkler County Sherrif Robert Roberts requested copies of the confidential complaints and notified Dr. Arafiles. Following this action, the sheriff and Dr. Arafiles a attempted to retaliate against the two nurses (Sack, K). After reviewing the outcome of the case, the nurses were both impacted negatively. They will probably never be hired into the

The case was based on plaintiff claims that they were engaged in protected activity of investigating potential false claims submitted by the hospital to the government. According to the suit filed, a doctor on site was involved in a kickback agreement with the hospital anesthesiologist, Dr. Brad Barth, the husband of one of the plaintiffs in the case.

Willfully Harming and Causing Stress and Anxiety to Purposely Frustrate the Court and Ultimately Harm her Client that will likely have very long term

The Plaintiffs felt that since the hospital was licensed and accredited that they should be held responsible for their employees and their actions. It states in the regulations that any infraction of the bylaws imposes liability for the injury. At any time if Dr. Alexander had questions or concerns he could have reached out to an expert in this field to consult

Health insurance fraud is what drives up health insurance premium costs, wastes taxpayer’s money, but can also endanger beneficiaries or leave them uninsurable. In 2015, Medicare Strike Force reported over $700 million in false billing by doctors, nurses, other licenses medical professionals, laboratories, and individuals (FBI.gov). This is a staggering figure that is only getting worse. In this fictitious federal case I will be describing the criminal offender, the crime that was committed, the charge handed down by law enforcement, and the judicial process from the beginning of the criminal case to the sentencing of Dr. Richard Heartman, an internal medicine physician.

The case arises from the alleged negligence of Dr. George Paltrow the Chief of Surgery of Bright Road Health System. On November 28, 2012, Mrs. Smith, after undergoing surgery was placed in the post-surgery care unit along with four other patients. The plaintiff claims Dr. Paltrow and numerous hospital residents came in and performed routine examinations on all four of patients inside the care unit without changing gloves or washing their hands. This statement is corroborated by the account of Jennifer Brainard one of the nurses on duty during the incident. Ms. Brainard further cites that Dr. Paltrow and other residents performed a dressing change and examination on the patient that was diagnosed with staph infection first before moving on

In the case study, there has been fraudulent activity in this office that would warrant criminal sanctions. There have been claims filed in which patients were seen by an NP but billed as though they had seen a physician, at times, even when that physician was not in the office that day. This is a

The jury found the nurses were guilty under the false claim act of ethical, moral and legal fraud and were noncompliant in providing medical services to Medicare patients.The conviction was justified under the false claims act because the actions the nurse's case fell short of being in compliance while providing services that the government was paying for(tribunedigital-sunsentinel, 2017). In the Tenet case the company excepted that they were

It was reported the facility admitted a resident requiring insulin injections. Resident Gregory Regosin DOB: 6/4/61 was admitted 30 day ago and was diagnosed with diabetes and diabetic neuropathy. According to the reporting party the facility had been administering the resident's medication due the resident inability to self-administer due to the neuropathy. On 7/21/16 the administrator Maria Manimeo became angry with the resident regarding an unrelated issue and declared "you can give it to you yourself" referring to the insulin. The resident disclosed that the facility is administering the medication (insulin), however at time the facility refuses to administer the injection. The resident stated he is unable to administer in injection due

Also, Mrs. Glynn informed the doctor that he was hurting her and he told her that it was because she wanted to save tooth # 32 which it was just a wisdom tooth. T he following day which it was Saturday, September 17 in our facility in the North, another issued took place with another patient her name is Jimenez Saida was schedule for extraction 16, 18 and 19, but on this day Dr. Sadati only performed extraction on tooth # 18 because while he was extracting this tooth Dr. Sadati yelled to the patient “Open your fucking mouth” this patient speaks English and Spanish and she understood. Furiously Mrs. Jimenez got up from the chair and walked to the front area and complaint about how rude and disrespectful how she was treated by the doctor. In this occasion our dental assistant Dwight was assisting the Dr. and he witness this incident. Both of this patient’s have not come back to our office due to the fact that they were not treated with respect, but I am sure that they would be willing to testify these