State Issues Forum (SIF)
Slide show. ")Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.") Presented at the AHA State Issues Forum in April 2002.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In its continuing effort to help enhance the state's malpractice climate, the West Virginia Hospital Association \(WVHA\) recently created a Special Task Force to review hospital and physician activity in obtaining available and affordable malpractice insurance.
A coalition of physician and health care organizations have developed a proposed medical liability reform bill that will provide protection and compensation for injured patients while not unfairly punishing health care providers in medical liability cases.
West Virginia is facing a serious medical liability crisis. Doctors are leaving WestVirginia. Older experienced doctors are retiring sooner and younger physicians,including medical residents, no longer consider West Virginia a satisfactory placeto work.
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Quality Initiatives in Maine Hospitals
Quality initiatives in Maine hospitals.
Estimates of charity care expenditures provide a quantitative measure of hospitals' commitment to expanding access to the medically uninsured in their communities but fail to provide information about the subset of uninsured who benefit or the gaps in public insurance programs' coverage that are…
There is a growing crisis in our community and across our great state. A crisis that, if left unchecked, could have a devastating impact on the region's economy. That crisis is medical malpractice insurance in West Virginia. We have already seen a number of physicians leave the mountain state…