Defending your reputation against severe professional misconduct allegations
Professional Misconduct Allegations are formal claims that your conduct violated professional, ethical, regulatory, or institutional standards, and in healthcare, that accusation alone can threaten your license, privileges, employment, and reputation before any final finding exists. If you are a physician, medical director, or facility administrator, the real issue is not only whether the allegation is true, but whether your response is disciplined, legally protected, and supported by records from the first hour forward. What Severe Professional Misconduct Allegations Mean in Healthcare In healthcare, severe misconduct allegations sit in a different category from ordinary workplace...
Holy Cross Health breaks ground on a new era of care in Fort Lauderdale
The $57.3 million Holy Cross Health Center & Emergency Care – Fort Lauderdale at Sunrise is expected to open in Spring 2027 A major investment in Fort Lauderdale’s healthcare future is underway. Holy Cross Health broke ground on the $57.3 million Holy Cross Health Center & Emergency Care – Fort Lauderdale at Sunrise that will expand access to emergency, specialty and diagnostic care for residents and visitors across the region. Phase one of the nearly 45,000 square-foot campus is expected to open in Spring 2027, bringing 24/7 emergency care, advanced imaging and multispecialty physician services to 200 E. Sunrise Blvd. The campus will span two 22,416 square-foot floors, with the...
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Copay assistance is meant to defray patient drug costs; some insurers keep it instead
For years, Larry Gruber used coupon cards from a drugmaker to help him meet his insurance plan’s out-of-pocket maximum, reducing his cost for psoriatic arthritis medication to $0 for the rest of the year. This year, his new health insurer, Oscar HMO of Florida, pocketed the coupon card and made Gruber use his own money to meet the cost-sharing requirements. (Scott McIntyre for KFF Health News) ~~~~~ For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month. Each year, Amgen, which makes the drug, called Enbrel, sent the coupon card worth thousands of...
A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
For more than a decade, Dr. Joseph Mercola cautioned parents against a potentially lifesaving shot of vitamin K for their newborn babies: “Vitamin K shots are completely unnecessary for your newborn.” But now, in a break from his past warnings, Mercola is saying he no longer believes that. ProPublica contacted Mercola recently as it was preparing an article about babies who died as a result of their parents turning down the vitamin K shot. Mercola’s new point of view is just as unequivocal as his old one: “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote in an April article on his website two days after ProPublica contacted him. He added: “Based on the totality of the published...
