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The Lobbies at the Top
The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics documents spending on lobbying statewide, as reported by the entities seeking influence and the lobbyists they hire. In 2011, companies, advocacy groups and unions spent $220 million on lobbying in the state, a record high. One in four of those dollars targeted New York City officials. This project examines the biggest-spending lobbying clients and the most active lobbying firms and shows what they sought to win — and who actually came out ahead.
Tags: Lobbying; lobbyists; advocacy groups; New York City
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"First, Do No Harm/Behind The Curtain"
Two women have come forward to say they were sexual assaulted by a male ER nurse while in the care of North Kansas City Hospital. The women were heavily drugged while the assaults occurred. KCTV reporters found that sexual assault on hospital patients is not as rare a problem as most might think. However, when asked about the issue, local advocacy groups, state nursing boards and even the senior V.P. of the Joint Commission were unaware it even existed.
Tags: MOCSA; Joint Commission; Federal Department of Health and Human Services; North Kansas City Hospital; William Price; Center for Health Ethics; Sarah Breier; Missouri State Board of Nursing; Paul Schyve
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Bad Practices Net Hospitals More Money
This three part series delves into the various problems that plague Medicare. One issue that comes up is how the system is set up so that hospitals get more money for each visit, even if those extra visits are a result of an infection picked up in an unsanitary ward. As a result, the highest quality health care providers end up with substantially less funding. The articles also touch on how the Medicare system encourages unnecessary surgery and a possible conflict of interest with the hospital inspectors.
Tags: Medicare; Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organization; American Medical Association; hospital inspections; doctors; clinics; HMOs; insurance
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The Cost of Courage
From small community hospitals, to Ivy League medical centers, physicians are increasingly facing retaliation from hospitals for reporting poor care. America's physicians are sworn to protect their patients from harm, but increasingly face a surprising obstacle. Doctors who step forward to warn of unsafe conditions or a colleague's poor work say they have been targeted by hospital administrators or boards. This is done by labeling the physicians "disruptive," then terminating their admitting privileges and listing them in a national data bank, effectively crippling their careers.
Tags: Center Community Hospital; hospital administration; hospital boards; National Practitioner Data Ban; patient care; hospital attorneys; suspension; Cleveland's University Hospitals; physicians; whistleblower physicians; Pennsylvania Medical Society; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; American Medical Association; Health Care Quality Improvement Act; Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Cleveland Clinic; Case Western Reserve University; hospital inspections; VA's Office of Healthcare Inspections
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Deception at the Delaware river Joint Toll Bridge Commission
Reporters from The Morning Call look at how government officials benefitted from raising the toll hike for bridges connecting New Jersey to Pennsylvania. The heavy increase in toll for these bridges was on the pretext of having developing a fund for rebuilding the bridges in case of any terrorist attacks. But as these reporters found out the government officials were actually playing on people's fear, increasing toll rates and using the money for economic development projects that would increase their power.
Tags: Government officials; toll bridges; bridges across New Jersey and Pennsylvania; terrorist attacks
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The Survivors
A joint investigation by ABC News and New York Times reveals that "one of the most visible attorneys leading the fight against the Swiss banks and German industry had a long history of malpractice claims and disciplinary actions." The report details how Ed Fagan, the attorney "publicly presenting himself as a champion of human rights ... was neglecting the very clients he had promised to help." The stories report on "Mr. Fagan ... asking for four million dollars in fees in the Swiss bank case, more that any other attorney involved at the case," while at the same time he missed the deadline to file his clients' documents before the Swiss Bank Commission. The investigation cites a former Fagan's employee reporting that the attorney ignored hundreds of phone calls and letters from Holocaust victims, as they were trying to clarify their eligibility for settlement money.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Nazis; Holocaust; Auschwitz; restitution; law; human rights
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Unsafe Haven
CBS News 60 Minutes reports "a year-long ... investigation of practices in the adolescent units of Charter Behavioral Health Systems, the nation's largest chain of private psychiatric hospitals.... (It) revealed evidence of unsafe conditions, injuries, deaths and cover-ups in Charter hospitals from Massachusetts to California. "
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Deadly restraint
The Courant finds that hundreds of patients, many of them children, have died after being restrained in psychiatric and mental retardation facilities nationwide. A 50-state survey confirmed 142 deaths during or shortly after restraint or seclusion in the past decade, but because many cases go unreported, the actual number of deaths is much higher.
Tags: FOIA Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
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Wall Street Journal finds that a seal of approval from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations may mask serious flaws in some hospitals, Oct. 12, 1988.
Tags: Bogdanich AMA AHA