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Hospitals Spend Small Fractions of Revenue on Charity Care

“Despite a congressman’s recent assurance that many hospitals “do the work for free,” Oklahoma’s hospitals spend less than 3 percent of their net patient revenues on charity care on average, […]
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Special report: Addicted nurses keep licenses

Some nurses continue to steal narcotics or practice while impaired under state monitoring that’s supposed to stop them.
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Surgeon salesmen? Doctors profit from devices they put in patients

“Reynolds is now suing Sabit for wrongful death. One of his biggest questions centers on the screws and rods used to fuse the spine, which came from a company called […]
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Large hospitals enjoy revenue, borrowing advantage

“Hospitals are confronting declining revenues and continuing investment demands from their patients and the government. These twin pressures are bringing into focus the advantages that large hospital operators hold over […]
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In Minnesota, nurses in trouble get second chances

“Records examined by the Star Tribune of more than 1,000 disciplinary actions by the Minnesota Board of Nursing over the past four years show that it tolerates or forgives misconduct […]
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VA’s opiate overload feeds veterans’ addictions, overdose deaths

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the agency charged with helping veterans recover from war instead masks their pain with potent drugs, feeding addictions and contributing to a fatal overdose rate […]
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Extra Extra Monday: Overdoses, background checks, housing markets, midwifery and fraudulent accounting

Use only as directed | ProPublica and This American Life “About 150 Americans a year die by accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The toll does […]
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Dismissal of caregiver abuse puts California patients at risk

Ryan Gabrielson of The Center for Investigative Reporting reports that "California regulators routinely have conducted cursory and indifferent investigations into suspected violence and misconduct committed by hundreds of nursing assistants […]
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Sponges, tools and more left inside Washington hospital patients

KUOW in Seattle reports that about 30 times per year, a sponge or surgical instrument is left inside a patient at a hospital in Washington state. Foreign ojects left behind […]
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Small-town Texas patients died amid federal, state regulatory inaction

The Dallas Morning News investigation shows how Dr. Tariq Mahmood operated a chain of dangerous small-town Texas hospitals for more than four years until regulators finally started to crack down. Before […]
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