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Category: Hospitals
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1 in 4 Child Deaths After E.R. Visits Are Preventable, Study Finds
If every emergency room in the United States were fully prepared to treat children, thousands of lives would be saved and the cost would be $11.84 or less per child, researchers found.
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Veterans Dept. Investigating Acadia Healthcare for Insurance Fraud
Several federal agencies are investigating whether the large chain of psychiatric hospitals held patients without medical justification.
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Frances Conley, Neurosurgeon Who Protested Sexism, Dies at 83
She was the rare woman in her field, and a tenured professor. But when a sexist colleague was promoted, she quit, forcing a reckoning in her profession.
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U.S. Races to Replace IV Fluid Supplies After Hurricane Helene
Officials are looking to foreign sources to ease shortages of IV bags caused by Hurricane Helene as hospitals begin rationing fluids to protect the sickest patients.
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Acadia Healthcare Says It Faces New Federal Investigations
Shares of the company, one of the largest chains of for-profit psychiatric hospitals, were down 25 percent at one point.
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Acadia Hospitals Reach $20 Million Settlement With Justice Dept.
The F.B.I. is also investigating the large chain of psychiatric hospitals for holding patients longer than what is medically necessary.
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That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I.
Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.
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Amigos durante 16 años, amantes por una noche
“¿Crees que habríamos discutido si hubiéramos sido pareja?”, me preguntó mi mejor amigo el día antes de su muerte.
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Friends for 16 Years. Lovers for One Night.
We realized much too late that we were right for each other.
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Exposing a Hospital Chain’s Disturbing Practices
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas spent months looking into a psychiatric hospital chain that held some people against their will for financial reasons, not medical ones.
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How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients
Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.