Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) tried to compel a Seattle hospital to hand over information about gender-affirming treatment Texas youths may have received across state lines, according to court filings, signaling an escalation of his office's attempts to crack down on Texans' ability to access such health care. The Seattle Children's Hospital requested a Texas judge nullify, or at least rein in, Paxton's demands, arguing that his office lacks the jurisdiction over the Washington state hos
Idaho emergency council gives Saint Alphonsus’ big Boise hospital ‘provisional designation’ following move from American College of Surgeons to revoke its trauma-center certification.
It was just after 11 p.m. when a computer screen alerted a hospital technician that one of the 50 patients she was remotely monitoring had a potentially fatal change of heart rhythm. Her screen also showed one of the wires attached to the patient had fallen off. Regardless, medical protocol required a code blue be called in case the patient needed resuscitation. The patient had been admitted .
Oregon State Hospital, a public mental hospital in Salem, is at risk of having its Medicare agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services terminated in 90 days after an “extremely dangerous” patient charged with “serious violent crimes” escaped custody using a hospital transportation van on Aug. 30, 12 hours after they were admitted to the hospital, a report by the CMS states.