Tools, questions to see if nursing home oversight is really working in your area
Any story that mentions maggots coming out of a patient’s ear is going to grab my attention. After recovering from the “yuk” factor, I was appalled after reading Christina Jewett’s account last week of...
View ArticleInvestigation reveals N.Y. lax on home care oversight
In the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union, Matt Drange’s investigation is titled “Home health care in crisis.” Having read the piece, I can say it’s safe to take that declaration at face value. At the very time...
View ArticleNew tool allows searches of nursing home inspection reports
For the first time, reporters anywhere in the country can search nursing home inspection reports online and see how often common problems pop up. Thank you, ProPublica, for creating Nursing Home...
View ArticleAHCJ unveils searchable database of hospital inspections
The Association of Health Care Journalists today launched hospitalinspections.org, a free, searchable news application that compiles thousands of federal inspection reports for hospitals around the...
View ArticleHow to cover nursing homes with more depth and data #ahcj13
It was worth the wait to attend one of the last sessions on the last day of Health Journalism 2013. Data mining is one of those topics that can make the audience’s eyes glaze over, but the energy level...
View ArticleHospital inspection reports one key to writing about quality of care #ahcj13
For journalists wanting to learn more about how to track hospital quality through inspection reports, Charles Ornstein, a senior reporter at ProPublica, and Paul Dreyer, a former senior regulator with...
View ArticleDrugs remain on market despite fraudulent research; FDA withholds information
Despite concluding that a drug research lab’s violations “were so ‘egregious,’ and pervasive that studies conducted there between April 2005 and August 2009 might be worthless,” the FDA didn’t pull the...
View ArticleTulsa reporter shares lessons from ongoing coverage of dentist
Shannon Muchmore As many of you know, it can be hard following an ongoing story – keeping up with the latest developments, looking ahead and staying ahead of the competition, finding the larger stories...
View ArticleUpdated hospital inspection data includes psychiatric facilities
AHCJ has updated its HospitalInspections.org website and the downloadable version of the data to include reports from most of 2013. The database – obtained from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid...
View ArticleSearchable hospital data now includes June inspections
AHCJ just added 3,522 detailed records of hospital deficiencies on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June. The searchable site includes 12,674 different...
View ArticleReporter finds mental health evaluations missed in ER that released murder...
Reporter Amy Neff Roth (@OD_Roth), of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch found an interesting story with the help of hospitalinspections.org. Roth, who attended Health Journalism 2015 as an AHCJ-New...
View ArticleWhat journalists should know about hospital ratings
Photo: Joel Dinda via Flickr Journalists should take hospital ratings with a healthy dose of skepticism, according to experts at a recent AHCJ New York chapter event. Simply looking at an institution’s...
View ArticleDrugs remain on market despite fraudulent research; FDA withholds information
Despite concluding that a drug research lab’s violations “were so ‘egregious,’ and pervasive that studies conducted there between April 2005 and August 2009 might be worthless,” the FDA didn’t pull the...
View ArticleTulsa reporter shares lessons from ongoing coverage of dentist
Shannon Muchmore As many of you know, it can be hard following an ongoing story – keeping up with the latest developments, looking ahead and staying ahead of the competition, finding the larger stories...
View ArticleUpdated hospital inspection data includes psychiatric facilities
AHCJ has updated its HospitalInspections.org website and the downloadable version of the data to include reports from most of 2013. The database – obtained from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid...
View ArticleSearchable hospital data now includes June inspections
AHCJ just added 3,522 detailed records of hospital deficiencies on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June. The searchable site includes 12,674 different...
View ArticleReporter finds mental health evaluations missed in ER that released murder...
Reporter Amy Neff Roth (@OD_Roth), of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch found an interesting story with the help of hospitalinspections.org. Roth, who attended Health Journalism 2015 as an AHCJ-New...
View ArticleWhat journalists should know about hospital ratings
Photo: Joel Dinda via Flickr Journalists should take hospital ratings with a healthy dose of skepticism, according to experts at a recent AHCJ New York chapter event. Simply looking at an institution’s...
View ArticleAHCJ continues to advocate for release of hospital inspection reports
See the full comment at Regulations.gov. AHCJ has submitted a statement to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services supporting the agency’s proposal to open hospital inspection reports to the...
View ArticleAHCJ updates HospitalInspections.org with latest data
Photo: Phalinn Ooi via Flickr AHCJ just added 1,319 hospital deficiency records in the searchable data on its HospitalInspections.org website. The latest addition includes inspections into June. The...
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