California | Local | Garrett Therolf | April 10, 2009
Los Angeles County supervisors have agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the children of Edith Rodriguez, the woman who died after writhing in pain for 45 minutes on the waiting-room floor of Martin Luther King Jr.
California | Local | Steve Chawkins | February 20, 2009
In an elder abuse case described by one investigator as the most outrageous he has ever seen, three former top managers at a Kern County nursing home have been arrested in the deaths of three residents who allegedly were given needless doses of psychotropic medications.
California | Local | Jia-rui Chong | February 14, 2009
After a vigorous debate among experts, the state medical board this week dismissed accusations of negligence against a perinatologist at Kaiser Permanente's Fresno Medical Center who was involved in two tragic deliveries.
California | Local | Christina Jewett | November 23, 2008
Psychiatric Solutions Inc. was on its way to becoming the nation's leading provider of private psychiatric care when it snapped up Sierra Vista Hospital in Sacramento in mid-2005.
California | Local | Jean-paul Renaud | July 31, 2008
Los Angeles County supervisors approved a series of settlements totaling more than $3.3 million this week, putting to rest three medical negligence cases and one police misconduct claim.
National | Walter F. Roche Jr. | April 20, 2008
Minutes after routine surgery for acute appendicitis in October 2003, Staff Sgt. Dean Witt, 25, was being moved to a recovery room at a Northern California military hospital when he gasped and stopped breathing.
