Florida Activity (43 items)
The University of Miami is reinforcing patient care as it gives new medical residents important training before they touch any real patients.
Florida Surgical Care Initiative, or FSCI, will collect data in four areas where such complications occur most often: infections at the surgical site or in the urinary tract, outcomes in elderly patients and outcomes after colorectal surgery.
This survey was created for patients who have experienced medical harm, their loved ones and their advocates. This survey was created by the Empowered Patient Coalition and we have jointly published this survey on our websites. This survey is designed to answer questions that are important to patients. This is a way for patients to report their experience as they have lived it, and to know that their report will be counted.The Empowered Patient Coalition will be entering the events annonymously on a map so you can see your error and others in your state by clciking on the map.
Consumer Reports recently reviewed hospitals around the country and found some medical centers are still slipping.
Broward General Medical Center patients received reused IV bags and have tested positive for some infectious diseases.
Money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will pay $1 million for infection control in ambulatory surgical centers in Maine, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Arkansas, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming and Kansas.
Kim Sandstrom, a patient safety activist in Florida, was invited to attend a White House forum with President Obama that was aired Wednesday night on ABC. Kim's 24-year-old daughter, Diana, died from a medical error in 2004.
Spot inspections at three Veterans Administration hospitals last month revealed that instruments used in colonoscopies and endoscopies were not properly disinfected, potentially exposing veterans to HIV and hepatitis.
Infection problem in a Florida hospital "higher than expected" on the state infection reporting website.
Florida quality report includes first hospital-specific information about infections.
Tampa WFLA-TV provides an extensive report on the new Florida Hospital Care Compare site that includes infection ratings for every hospital in the state.
Patient advocates ask why it's taking so long to reveal the data, as required by Florida law.
Tampa's WFLA-TV reports on the secrecy behind infection rates in Florida hospitals. The three-part series was shot last October, but is particularly relevant now that the Florida Legislature has approved a bill requiring disclosure of infection rates in a more understandable form.
Users of WhyNotTheBest.org can now search for and compare data from more than 900 hospitals on the incidence of central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs)—one of the most lethal hospital-acquired complications. The data show wide variation in CLABSI incidence, in spite of strong evidence on how to prevent them. This data is made possible through a partnership among The Commonwealth Fund, The Leapfrog Group, and Consumers Union.
Plans about what the states are supposed to be doing to eliminate hospital acquired infections.
Link to map that highlights antimicrobial resistance issues at the state level.
Go to this website for information on fully paid medical malpractice cases (insert physician’s name where indicated and click on “search”).
Go to this website for a profile of your doctor.
Looking for information on Florida physicians? Go to this website for information on licensing verification.
See last paragraph
This needs to be done better
i agree, end secrecy
I agreed with other posters that, so much covered up in Florida (God fearing State). It is all about making money and treating so many poor people, like cattle.
22 Years ago, I gave birth to my child a month early. the Dr.'s and Mid-wives were great.. But I left the hospital w/something else the 2 of us "celebrate every year.. HEPATITIS C.after 18 pints of blood, my uterus, etc..I now have directly from the Hep. Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis,Raynaulds, Fibro.,sjorgens,C.O.P.D. due to a lung collapsing during the surgery,which was performed in the actual labor room. I love those that saved me, I raised wonderful daughter,college deans list 4 (all) years, Cum Laude,3.8., and now she sees the world through her job in a great company advertising,everything I could pray for and even more, her fiance is N.Y.P.D., she has her goals set and does them "all" and yet I cry knowing I may not get to see nor hold my dear grandchildren someday... but Dr. Leroy, Thank you,and every single midwife staff nurse everything I thank you for the time I do have w/ her, though I am in Fl. and she in NY..So sometimes lemons do become lemonade!!!!
Help us with cost effective medical care.
DO NOT FORGET THE ELDERLY AND INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
Go Go Go We Can Do It
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Let's do the right thing. For all those that want to help the unborn, fine. Let us also help those that are born.
More than 290,000 surgical site infections occur in U.S. hospitals each year. Patients who acquire infections from surgery spend, on average, an additional 6.5 days in the hospital, are five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge, and twice as likely to die.
Surgery patients are at risk for infection because surgical incisions create a pathway for germs to enter the body. Maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is therefore critical to protect patients from being contaminated with bacteria, which can lead to infection.
How well is your hospital, state and the nation as a whole are performing on three key practices that help prevent infections during surgery? Find out here »
I needed to have gall bladder surgery on 10/31/91, and the surgeon wanted me to have an endoscopy to see if a very large gall stone could be broken up (so I would not need major surgery, and he could possibly do the surgery lapriscopically). I was not told what drug I was going to be given, just that I was going to be given something in my IV to 'relax me.' I was given my first does of Versed which did nothing, then a second dose which sort of made me woozy. During the procedure I woke up 5 times choking, gasping for breath (I'm a very bad asthmatic also), and every time I woke up more Versed was pumped into my IV.
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In 1992, an intern just out of med school was allowed to perform angiography on my wife. He got the catheter tangled in the aortic arch, and failed to realize a "redundancy" was preventing the tip from advancing along the internal carotid. When he tried to correct the redundancy, the tip of the guide wire sprang forward causing a dissected carotid artery.
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My defibrillator fired fifteen times until I finally told them to turn it off. I said my goodbyes to my wife and told her I loved her, thinking it was over for me. The shocks stopped and nothing happened, much to my surprise, as I thought I would die. I later found that nine of the fifteen shocks were not programmed.
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