DMN editor responds to recent UT Southwestern criticism of our investigation...
comments ()Managing editor George Rodrigue dedicates part of his “Ask The Editor” column to addressing a lengthy protest that UT Southwestern Medical Center sent earlier this year to the staff of the...
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Keep the public informed about the federal health-and-safety inspection of...
comments () Yesterday, Parkland’s chief medical officer sent out a memo discouraging employees from publicly discussing the sweeping U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services inspection of...
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Board of Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital to discuss (again) chief...
comments () Parkland’s governing board will gather at 5 p.m. Tuesday in another closed-door, special meeting to talk about “contracts and personnel matters” involving Dr. Ron J. Anderson, including...
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Breaking news: Dr. Ron Anderson’s tenure as Parkland Memorial Hospital’s CEO...
comments () Dr. Ron J. Anderson’s 29-year tenure as Parkland Memorial Hospital’s president and chief executive is ending, a stunning development in a month that has seen the institution approach the...
View ArticleState hospital association unhappy that The News analyzed patient safety
comments ()Before we published last Sunday’s analysis of patient safety in Texas hospitals, we shared our detailed methodology with the industry group that represents them. The Texas Hospital...
View ArticleBoard holds off on selecting an interim Parkland CEO
comments ()Parkland Memorial Hospital board members are slowing down the process for picking an interim CEO to replace embattled Dr. Ron Anderson. They signaled earlier in the week that they could make...
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New HHS report finds hospitals failing to report patient harm, and what does...
comments () We previously told you how the U.S. Health and Human Services’ inspector general found that more than a quarter of Medicare patients suffered serious or temporary harm during...
View ArticleParkland CEO still refusing to discuss critical safety report
comments ()Parkland’s top official is refusing to discuss a critical report by outside safety monitors and is taking issue with those monitors, even after The Dallas Morning News obtained a copy...
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UT System on Parkland: “Errors will occasionally occur”
comments () As we reported this morning , the devastating report by federally installed safety … [visit site to read more]
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Dallas Area Interfaith calls on Parkland’s board, UTSW to fix crisis
comments () UPDATED: 3:20 p.m. with UTSW response. My colleague Miles Moffeit is at Parkland Memorial Hospital today, covering its Board of Managers meeting. He reports that a grassroots advocacy...
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More details on safety reforms that Parkland doesn’t want the public to know
comments () As we’ve told you this week, Parkland Memorial Hospital is continuing its not-your-business stance with the public about its strategy for fixing patient-care failures. The publicly funded...
View ArticleTexas health commish playing role in Parkland crisis talks, says “denial...
comments ()Texas health commissioner Dr. David Lakey has become personally involved in local talks to ensure Parkland Memorial Hospital resolves its safety crisis and that patients continue to receive...
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Texas counties lead nation in home health-care use, says federal report that...
comments () The home health-care business is booming — and that points to possible fraud, says a new federal report. “The new agencies appear to be concentrated in areas where fraud is a concern:...
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S&P credit ratings service warns investors about Parkland
comments () A major credit rating service is warning investors about potential fallout from Parkland Memorial Hospital’s patient-care failures. The bonds Parkland sold to build its new hospital (right)...
View ArticleSecret plan to fix Parkland hospital demands many expensive changes
comments ()Since late February, Parkland Memorial Hospital has kept a lid on its do-or-die “corrective action plan.” Even hospital employees, by and large, have not seen it. Now we’ve finally obtained...
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Social worker: Parkland hospital fired me for reporting safety violations
comments () Another wrongful-termination lawsuit that names big names has been filed against Parkland Memorial Hospital. Longtime social worker Sandra Palmer, as you can see below, says her bosses told...
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Nobel winners, friends and ‘Positive Response Committee’ back Wildenthals
comments () Dr. Kern Wildenthal’s supporters in Dallas continue to rally behind him — not simply with words, but with their dollars — after a UT System internal report found he used UT Southwestern...
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Newly disclosed report reveals weakness of Parkland’s internal watchdogs;...
comments () Another report by Parkland Memorial Hospital’s safety monitors brings into sharper focus why so many patient-safety failures have occurred at the Dallas institution in recent years: Its...
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Fate of Parkland Hospital’s interim chief, patient-safety issues under review...
comments ()Interim CEO Thomas Royer's contract ends this month (File photo) In keeping with its recent practice, Parkland Memorial Hospital’s board of managers is meeting behind closed doors this...
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Several Dallas hospitals get poor marks in new safety report
comments ()Find your hospital's patient-safety performance using our statewide searchable database.(Staff) A new safety study from the health policy wonks at the Leapfrog Group gives poor marks to many...
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