North Carolina’s attorney general is suing HCA Healthcare, alleging the for-profit hospital operator has cut emergency and cancer care at Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System and lapsed on its 2019 purchase agreement in doing so.
Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues
6 recent hospital lawsuits, settlements
From the former CEO of MetroHealth filing a motion to drop his lawsuit against the hospital’s board, to Washington University in St. Louis accusing the Missouri attorney general of violating HIPAA, here are six hospital lawsuits, settlements and legal …
Man pleads guilty to hospital bomb threat
A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to offenses related to a bomb threat he called in to Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital in May 2021.
Furloughed prisoner may have escaped UPMC hospital with employee's car
A furloughed prisoner escaped custody Dec. 9 while receiving medical treatment at Erie, Pa.-based UPMC Hamot, according to local reports. Now, police are investigating whether he stole a hospital employee’s car to skip town.
Biotech CEO pleads guilty to fraud scheme
Keith Berman, former CEO and director of Decision Diagnostics Corp., pleaded guilty to securities fraud, wire fraud and obstruction of an official proceeding.
Man sentenced to 20 years for fatal VCU hospital shooting
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.
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…
