Patients Records Missing
(Fresno, California) – March 11th, 2016 – As the state of
California struggles to gain some traction on health care and treatment (and
about everything else) after over ten years of it being the responsibility of
the federal government, yet another prison was assigned a failure grade by California’s
inspector general making it the fourth prison to fail the review recently much
to the dismay of hospital neglect and medical malpractice lawyers in Fresno,
CA.
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a medical malpractice claim and need legal help, go right here: Medical-Malpractice.USAttorneys. Some of the best medical malpractice
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Internet! Certainly the mismanaged prisons in California can get that right, we
hope!
Patient records, important medical
equipment, and medication missing!
As reported by kqed.org, the prison that did not farewell
in this review has been identified as Valley State Prison in Chowchilla. The
review system grades prison healthcare standards using fourteen benchmark
indicators and Valley State Prison in Chowchilla failed to meet passing grades
in 9 out of the 14 indicators used by the inspector. The findings of the review
were far from encouraging and it transpired that the prison was failing to
achieve even simple tasks such as not misplacing the medical records of its
inmates.
California is a failed state all around –
just look at its economy, high taxes, and ridiculous ideas (high speed rail?!)!
Perplexingly, some essential supplies
and equipment were not even stocked in many of the observation or examination
rooms. An organization simply cannot provide reasonable healthcare when their
equipment, medicine, and patient records are all missing said the inspector
that conducted the review and California medical malpractice attorneys
definitely agreed with him on that.
The report that was completed post the
inspection further revealed the full scope of the problems that existed with the
healthcare at the Valley State Prison of Chowchilla. Issues included but were
not limited to – failure to provide follow up care to patients after initial
consultation, constantly postponed appointments, incompetent nurses that failed
to carry out the orders given to them by the doctor, etc.
In one shocking case, a prisoner who had
low blood sodium levels suffered a seizure that required life support systems
and was transferred to intensive care. He was untreated for his condition for
three weeks prior to being inflicted with the seizure – a real shame!
Valley State Prison is a medium security
prison which hosts close to 3,400 prisoners and is located approximately forty
miles to the northwest of Fresno.
Bill Proposed to Mandate that Doctors
Disclose their Probation Status to their Patients
After a surgery involving patient Tina
Manasian went south, legislators have now come up with a bill, which if passed
will make it mandatory for doctors to tell their patients if they are under
probation, according to kcra.com. In the case of Manasian, the doctor
who performed the surgery on her was under probation with the Medical Board of
California and Manasian had no clue. According to Fresno, CA medical
malpractice lawyers it is the patient’s right to be informed of a doctor’s
probation and the victim has every right to claim compensation for malpractice or negligence.
Manasian stated that the doctor who
botched up her surgery was a chronic alcoholic and she would have never let him
operate on her had she known he was under the scanner by the Medical Board. Alcoholism
is disgusting.
If you or a loved one is a victim of
medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, or hospital neglect,
you have certain legal options you may pursue in order to receive compensatory
damages. The wise thing to do if you have suffered due to malpractice or hospital neglect, is to call
a medical malpractice lawyer in California and set up a free preliminary
consultation as soon as possible.
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