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Search results for "patient dumping" ...
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Prescription 4 Trouble
Fox News/Fox Files reports that "... Each time a prescription is filled a mountain of paperwork is created, much of which requires disposal. The documentation generated is supposed to be kept as part of the pharmacy's confidential patient record. At the major pharmacy chains we investigated they were dumping the excess paperwork in unsecured trash containers - a clear violation of patient confidentiality...."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT privacy medical records identity theft blackmail junkies
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Trashed Medical Secrets
WSB-TV reports that "Eckerd Pharmacy (was) found routinely dumping confidential patient information in unsecured dumpsters. Stores had no established policy to protect such information. Local drug suspect had used a trashed prescription in (an) attempt to obtain drugs..."
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1993 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape
The 1993 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape is a compilation of 5 investigative stories. 1.) "Crossing the Line," by 5th Estate, Canadian Broadcasting Company. CBC reveals how women athletes face a lifetime of sexual harassment from male coaches in sports clubs, universities and national teams who demand intimate relations after coaching them to success. See#9984. 2.) "Sewage Sludge," KGTV, San Diego uncovers the illegal dumping of processed human waste onto farmers fields. The stories exposed dangers to human health and the incompetence of city officials. See # 9635. 3.) "Dionne Warwick," Day One, ABC News reveals how the foundation started by Dionne Warwick raised millions of dollars for AIDS research but through mismanagement and extravagant expenses very little went to the charities.The foundation eventually closed its doors with huge debts and 62 creditors. See # 9760. 4.) "In Our Children's Food," Frontline PBS and WGBH, Boston explores the risks of agricultural pesticides and the failure of the government to certify the risks of a number of pesticides which are in widespread use. An investigation finds that the suppression and politicization of a key report about the toxic risks to children. See # 9886. 5.) "Autistic Abuse / Silent Victims," Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) Alberta News exposes the abuse of autism patients at a special government-funded home; finds secret documents that indicate government agencies knew of the abuse but didn't act. Authorities closed the home the day after the story ran. See # 9632.
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Critical Care
KOMU-TV investigation revealed two Jefferson City, Mo, hospitals were in trouble after violating several regulations. St. Mary's Health Center had been cited by the state's bureau of facility regulation for a number of problems ranging from patients developing severe bedsores and losing large amounts of weight during admission, to a nurse who refused to cooperate with superiors during surgery and needed a reminder during a heart operation of how some of the heart valves work. At Capital Region Medical Center, the federal government had uncovered instances of patient-dumping.
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Warehousing the Mentally Ill
The State of Illinois is using geriatric nursing homes as dumping grounds for thousands of able-bodied mentally ill citizens as young as 20 years old, some with histories of uncontrollable violence. The Tribune's investigation found that state officials have manipulated patient files to hide the number of mentally ill patients in nursing homes in order to collect an extra $50 million in Medicaid.
Tags: Schizophrenia
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Wall Street Journal reports hospitals transfer or refuse to admit nearly 250,000 poor patients every year; finds patient dumping is common, and often leads to deaths, while federal and state anti-dumping laws are ineffective, Nov. 29, 1988. Ansberry
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No title (id: 5354)
Health Letter (Washington, D.C.) examines the first sanction imposed against a doctor by the Department of Health and Human Services for violating a poorly enforced 1986 federal law prohibiting the transfer of indigent or uninsured patients to another hospital, January 1989.
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No title (id: 5348)
Houston Post examines Texas's new "anti-dumping" law, which refers to the transfer of uninsured patients from private to public hospitals, after one such patient died, April 26 - May 13, 1987.
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Shreveport (La.) Journal reports local hospitals' profits nearly doubled in the first three years of the new Medicare Prospective Payment System, despite a 15 percent drop in average occupancy; poorest patients were being dumped onto a local charity hospital, March 30 - April 7, 1987.
Tags: Norder LA MPPS hospitals