Four Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn officials, including a vice president, each have been charged with a misdemeanor count of failing to report to police the alleged sexual assault of a stroke victim.
The Scottsdale City Prosecutor’s office pressed the charges in the highly publicized case of the 22-year-old victim, who could only communicate the alleged assault with [...]

Individuals who carry antimicrobial-resistant disease-producing agents such as MRSA places patients at high risk of infection. Early identification of patients with MRSA and subsequent prevention of patient-to-patient spread through infection control measures are believed to be important interventions to control MRSA. %26quot;Experts and policy makers, nationally and internationally, recommend universal admission screening as a means [...]

Now, approaching dusk on Jeanna’s second day in the hospital, she lay in the intensive care unit, a breathing tube threaded through her nose to prevent her from choking on saliva. She was unresponsive.
The Gieses told Jeanna they loved her. They prayed. They told her to pray, too.
Mystified by their daughter’s illness, John, 44, and [...]

“He whipped out his cell phone and walked out the door,” recalled Gina, 35, who was pregnant with her first child.
Left in the dark, the Spickas spent a panicky 10 minutes in the room last September while the doctor consulted with a pediatric heart specialist at another hospital.
When he returned, his face was serious.
“This is [...]