By Bob Aller Posted December 2, 2024 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a chilling SUMMARY STATEMENT OF DEFICIENCIES on February 8, 2024. The report focused on the …
Vanderbilt’s Role In The Death Of A Patient
It’s been widely reported that Nurse Ra Donda Vaught is facing criminal charges of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse. The charges stemmed from a series of inadvertent medication errors …
Chaos In A General Surgery Residency Program
Vanderbilt General Surgery Resident, Gretchen Edwards BY BOB ALLER In April 2017, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville), a resident from the general surgery residency program was instructed to place …
“Joseph was a beautiful boy whose life deserved to be saved just like any other person” – JoJo’s Mom
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Nurse Fired While Advocating For Patient Safety On CVICU
Nurse Julie Griffin Photo by Munoz Photography Bob Aller Nurse Julie Griffin worked as an RN at the Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, Florida (Miami metro area). Repeatedly, Ms. Griffin …
Nurse Whistleblower Trial Set To Challenge HCA Hospital For Inadequate ICU Staffing
Nurse Julie Griffin blew the whistle on unsafe staffing levels at the HCA Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, Florida. From January 2017 through July, 2017, Nurse Julie Griffin worked …
HCA Wants Out!!!
Hospital Watchdog Statement: Nurse Julie Griffin and her lawyers faced down HCA Westside hospital over unsafe staffing on a cardiac ICU. With the trial date just days away, HCA apparently …
Understaffing In The ER Claimed, ER Nurse Fired
Lawsuit States ER Clinical Coordinator At HCA Hospital Was Fired For Claiming Understaffing In The ER The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that Nurse Julie Stephens filed a lawsuit against …
Air Embolism Linked To Central Line Death
Bob Aller Summary: Just after 1:30 pm on the afternoon of August 22, 2016, at Palms West Hospital in Florida, RN Linda Truempy entered the ICU room of a 25-year-old …
Patient Bleeds To Death After Colonoscopy
Introduction Bob Aller Last week Hospital Watchdog conducted an in-depth interview with Ms. Dena Royal, a former paramedic, and respiratory therapist. Dena’s mother, Martha Wright, bled to death following a …