http://www.chcaa.org/blog Wed, 16 May 2012 16:15:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1559 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1559#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:15:17 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1559
With an estimated 60,000 Canadians dying each year from medical errors and hospital-acquired infections, Canada should create legislation to establish health-care-worker-to-patient ratios and make public reporting of data more stringent, a health care safety activist says. Click here to read article.]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1559 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1548 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1548#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:24 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1548
A 25-year-old British tourist was hospitalized with serious stab wounds after a dispute at a Las Vegas business that police say was marketed as a reflexology spa but operated as a prostitution scam. Tourists impaired by alcohol or drugs are popular victims at the fake prostitution businesses, according to the arrest reports. Click  here to read [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1548 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1543 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1543#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:21:49 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1543
Temple University has agreed to pay $412,000 to resolve its part of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving a former associate dean of its medical school. The university’s payment represents a portion of more than $1 million in restitution connected to the federal fraud case of the former ophthalmology school chairman who was accused of overbilling for patient [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1543 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1556 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1556#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:01:05 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1556
A nursing home industry task force created after a Star investigation into elder abuse is recommending sweeping changes to fix the system that cares for 77,000 fragile seniors. The investigation, which examined 1,500 nursing home inspection reports, found serious behavioural problems among residents. For example, at one nursing home, a male resident sexually assaulted an elderly woman. A ministry inspector [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1556 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1540 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1540#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:12:34 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1540
Fraud and the abuse of healthcare services in the U.S. cost an estimated $125-175 billion annually. This represents the second largest component of the $600-850 billion surplus in healthcare spending. Click here to read article.]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1540 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1534 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1534#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 15:25:46 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1534
A former police officer from Pontefract who took time off work after lying about her daughter having cancer has admitted fraud. She admitted that, between January 1 2009 and October 10 last year, she claimed her daughter “was ill with a form of cancer, she had had a tumour which was surgically removed requiring chemotherapy [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1534 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1531 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1531#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 15:20:53 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1531
PUBLIC health officials have been linked in a confidential report to a new web of fraud and corruption amounting to R200-million in the embattled Eastern Cape Health Department. The alleged corruption was unearthed by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) during a preliminary investigation. Click here to read article.]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1531 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1523 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1523#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 14:34:14 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1523
When LA received a check for $1,989.76 in the mail last week as part of a part-time job invitation, she knew something was wrong. As it turns out, the check, and letter that accompanied it explaining the offer, was one of many scams aimed at taking advantage of a tough economy by offering exorbitant profits in [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1523 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1520 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1520#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 14:04:15 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1520
The absolute worst thing, J.  admitted, was stealing painkillers from the terminally ill. He lived in a small town in southern Manitoba, so it wasn’t hard to find a cancer patient. He’d scope their house, like a thief, and wait for them to leave — if they could. ”This type of abuse is not something we’ve seen [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1520 0 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1545 http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1545#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 17:22:43 +0000 sali http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=1545
Two Harvard teaching hospitals and a prominent Alzheimer’s disease researcher accused of using falsified data to obtain a government research grant are set to stand trial after a federal appeals court said this week that a lower court erred when it dismissed the case. The data showed results from a trial were scientifically significant when in [...]]]> http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1545 0