St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, a 431 bed Syracuse hospital, recently announced that its cardiac rehabilitation program received recertification by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACPR). Recertification means that St. Joseph’s Hospital and Health Center met AACPR standards, including: methods for disease management, disease education, risk factor…
Before the internet, it was almost impossible for patients to learn about doctor qualifications, including where a doctor went to medical school, whether a doctor has published articles or performed research in the field, whether a doctor has made a mistake and been sued for medical malpractice and, if so,…
Gestational diabetes is a condition where a pregnant woman’s body is unable to make or use enough insulin. Insulin is hormone that causes cells in specific areas of the body, such as the liver, to take up glucose from the blood. Gestational diabetes is very common pregnancy complication. As many…
Syracuse-area hospitals and doctors fail to diagnose medical conditions everyday. These failures to diagnose form the basis of lawsuits for medical malpractice and wrongful death. Generally, most failure to diagnose lawsuits arise of out heart attacks, breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and appendicitis. That being said, there are thousands…
According to a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, most doctors are aware of the mistakes they have made. Of the doctors polled, almost all could recall the instances when they misdiagnosed a patient, or made a diagnosis too slowly. On average, each physician polled reported an…
According to a recent study, as many as one-half of all hospital patients in hospital intensive care units have infections and nearly three-in-four patients are being given antibiotics. While infections are not usually the result of medical malpractice, the failure to diagnose an infection or the failure to prescribe antibiotics…
A baby girl diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly after birth recently enjoyed the fruits of cord blood research. While medical malpractice and birth injury or birth trauma (e.g., asphyxia, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and ischemia) account for many cases of cerebral palsy, her disability was not due to medical malpractice. Rather,…
Central New York women who smoke, including women smokers in Syracuse, Watertown, Utica, Herkimer, Auburn, Oswego, Binghamton and other upstate New York State cities, have an increased risk of developing seizures. According to a recent study, smokers were two to three times more likely to suffer a seizure. Theories for…
Nearly every day, meningitis is misdiagnosed in New York hospitals, including Syracuse-area hospitals such as University Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, Crouse Hospital, Samaritan Medical Center, Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Albany Medical Center. The failure to diagnose meningitis can have significant consequences, including loss of…
Crouse Hospital, a 506 bed facility based in Syracuse, New York, and Community General Hospital, a 306 bed facility also based in Syracuse, New York, are discussing the possibility of a merger to lower costs and improve upon patient care. Crouse President and CEO Dr. Paul Kronenberg, and Community General…