A former VCU Health employee found guilty of second-degree murder after shooting his coworker in a hospital stairwell has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues
New York health system hit with record $120M malpractice verdict
Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network has been ordered by a jury to pay $120 million to a patient and his family following delayed stroke care that resulted in brain damage.
Ex-ICU nurse sentenced to 20 years in prison for assaulting patients
A former Colorado ICU nurse found guilty of filming himself sexually assaulting more than a dozen unconscious patients will spend 20 years in prison, Local12 reported Dec. 10.
Supreme Court tosses federal vaccine mandate rulings
The Supreme Court on Dec. 11 threw out three cases challenging the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal employees and military members, preventing lower court rulings from establishing a precedent for future mandates, The Hill&nbs…
Nurse degree scheme trial begins
The former owner of the now-shuttered Palm Beach School of Nursing in Florida will be the prosecution’s main witness in a federal trial of three defendants accused of recruiting students into a coordinated scheme to sell them fake diplomas and transcri…
Fired MetroHealth CEO drops lawsuit
Akram Boutros, MD, former CEO of Cleveland-based MetroHealth, filed a motion to withdraw his lawsuit against the hospital’s board due to health issues, Signal Cleveland reported Dec. 8.
Florida ERs face new regulations
Florida lawmakers are proposing a package of healthcare laws for the state’s 2024 legislative session, including measures to redirect patients from hospital emergency departments.
Oregon systems aim to revive suit over psychiatric care
Four health systems in Oregon are seeking to resurrect a lawsuit in which they contend the state’s inadequate mental healthcare system is causing them to be overburdened with psychiatric patients whom they’re ill-equipped to care for, The Lund Re…
Knoxville police open homicide investigation into nurse’s death
The Knoxville Police Department officially opened a homicide investigation on Dec. 7 into the death of a nurse who was attacked by a patient at East Tennessee Behavioral Health Center on Sept. 23.
Healthcare billing fraud: 10 recent cases
From a medical equipment company owner receiving a 15-year sentence for a $24 million scheme to the conviction of a New York physician in a scheme that subjected Medicaid patients to unnecessary radiological tests, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud …
