Community General Hospital, located in Syracuse, New York, announced today that it will be adding 36 private rooms as part of a $7.6 million expansion of its inpatient orthopedic services department. Community General...
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An M&T truck driver was critically injured yesterday when a tractor trailer tire burst and struck him in the face and head. According to the Watertown Daily Times, the driver was waiting at the M&T garage while a...
The Syracuse chapter of the Brain Injury Association of New York State recently announced that it will hold its Fourth Annual Golf Classic on June 25, 2009, at Turning Stone. Cost to enter the tournament is $200 per player...
Two Syracuse hospitals – Crouse Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center – announced today that they are taking very specific steps to reduce hospital stay complications, which may be due to medical malpractice
According to the Post-Standard, a computer program recently implemented at Crouse Hospital, in Syracuse, New York, uncovered the fact that the hospital’s pulmonary embolism rate is above average. In response to the program,
Earlier today, the Syracuse police responded to a tractor trailer accident on Route 690, near Teall Avenue. According to News 10 Now, a car and tractor trailer crashed just before 2:00 p.m. There were no serious injuries....
An unidentified youth was injured on Sunday while operating an ATV at the Utica Rome Speedway in Vernon. According to the Utica-Observer Dispatch, the youth was injured when the ATV’s tie rod broke, ejecting him from the...
A Syracuse woman has filed a product liability lawsuit against Mentor Corporation, the manufacturer of ObTape – intended to combat stress urinary incontinence. Her doctor suggested that she undergo a simple procedure to...
Last week, a lawsuit was filed in St. Lawrence County on behalf of the family of an 80 old woman killed when the ambulance transporting her to Fletcher Allen Health Care in (Burlington) Vermont crashed. While en route to the
Two weeks ago, the Slocum-Dickson Medical Group filed a lawsuit against St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center for $102,000,000 in damages. The lawsuit does not allege medical malpractice or a failure to diagnose. Rather, it was...