Health Care and Privacy

By Walter F. Roche Jr. A Scranton hospital failed to properly investigate a serious incident in which a patient was burned during a routi...

By Walter F. Roche Jr. Multiple failures at a Veterans Administration facility in West Philadelphia may have contributed to the unexpecte...

By Walter F. Roche Jr. For the second time in a matter of a month, a Wilkes Barre hospital has been cited by state regulators for failing...

By Walter F. Roche Jr. When a patient reported to the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center for the blood test ordered by a doctor, the...

By Walter F. Roche Jr. State surveyors officially declared patients at a Pennsylvania hospital were in "immediate jeopardy" two...

By Walter F. Roche Jr. A pregnant 33-year-old patient was transfused with the wrong blood type at a Hazelton hospital when two nurses fai...

By Walter F. Roche Jr. For the second time in a matter of days a western Pennsylvania hospital has been cited for failing to monitor a ca...