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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...

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Investigation 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...

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New 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...

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AHCJ 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...

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How 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...

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Hospital 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...

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Drugs 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...

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Tulsa 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...

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Updated 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...

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Searchable 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...

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Reporter 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...

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What 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...

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Drugs 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...

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Tulsa 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...

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Updated 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...

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Searchable 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...

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Reporter 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...

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What 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...

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AHCJ 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...

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AHCJ 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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