TOO MANY PATIENTS TOO LITTLE TIME Series: UNNECESSARY DANGER: MILITARY MEDICINE 3rd of 7 parts CITY Edition

Those cases push Beaumont to a grim distinction: the hospital with more malpractice claims than any other military health facility in America. A Dayton Daily News examination found William Beaumont not only was targeted for more malpractice claims than any other hospital, just four other hospitals h...

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Published inDayton daily news (Dayton, Ohio. 1987)
Main Author Jeff Nesmith and Russell Carollo co 1997, DAYTON DAILY NEWS
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dayton, Ohio Atlanta Journal Constitution, LLC 07.10.1997
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Summary:Those cases push Beaumont to a grim distinction: the hospital with more malpractice claims than any other military health facility in America. A Dayton Daily News examination found William Beaumont not only was targeted for more malpractice claims than any other hospital, just four other hospitals had even half as many claims as Beaumont did over the 10 years. Beaumont, a 306-bed hospital at Fort Bliss on the outskirts of El Paso, was targeted for more claims than the combined total for the Bethesda Naval Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which together have three times as many beds.
ISSN:0897-0920