According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a federal information repository dedicated to improving health care quality, promoting patient safety, and preventing fraud and abuse. The NPDB is a federal government program that collects and publishes negative information on health…
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The fact that his mistakes were unintentional and not proven to have hurt an animal was not a basis to reverse a veterinarian's two-month suspension, said an appeals court in Arkansas November 20. The court dismissed the appeal of the suspension which was imposed after a client accused the veterinarian…
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Citing a collection of errors by a trial court that had thrown out a license revocation for bias on the part of the Missouri funeral board, an appellate court reinstated the revocation imposed on a funeral director. In the November 5 decision, the court noted that the funeral director had…
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A nursing home administrator who alleged that state board officials violated his civil rights failed to submit the necessary factual information to state his claim, but his claims against a board investigator who was found to have presented false testimony are allowed to proceed, the U.S. District Court for the…
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They say it only takes a few bad apples to ruin a barrel. Just as other licensed professions in California battle with the few that can tarnish the reputation of the many, so goes the nursing profession. The head-turner with nursing, however, is that people’s lives are at stake and…
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What a difference a few years make. It wasn’t long ago (around 2005) when upwards of 8,000 of would-be real estate agents would take the California real estate exam in a single month. According to California Department of Real Estate’s statistics, about that same number of people now take it over…
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