Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is under investigation for exposing patients to extremely high radiation overdoses resulting in patients losing their hair and reddening of their skin. The Cedar Sinai radiation overdose investigation focuses on more than 200 patients who were given CT brain scans used to diagnose strokes over the past 18 months.

CDC reports that failures to follow infection practices have placed more than 60,000 patients at risk for Hepatitis B and C.

Hospital-borne infections are a serious risk of a long-term hospital stay, and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a lung infection that develops in about 15% of all people who are ventilated, is among the most dangerous.

A dangerous MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) hospital infection is killing patients in hospitals and nursing homes at an alarming rate. Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has been ignoring its severity for forty years while it resists efforts to stem the growth of the sometimes deadly MRSA infection that puts its patients at risk.

A probiotic bacterium, Lactobacillus plantarum 299, has been used to out-compete the dangerous bacteria that cause respiratory illness in ventilated patients.

Risk of Infections Spread Through the Blood. The New York State Department of Health conducted an extensive investigation of the Life Care Dialysis Center, located at 221 West 61st Street, New York City, after receiving reports about the possible transmission of hepatitis C at this facility.

Patients enter hospitals every day for a variety of reasons but usually without the thought of developing a new health problem. Yet every year thousands of hospitalized Americans acquire infections during hospital stays, causing risk of complications, prolonged stays and an increased burden on the health-care system.