Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital

UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital stories: 2 news summaries

UCLA Staff Peeked Into Brit's Records

Hospital moving to fire 13 after second wave of Spears snooping

Mar 14, 08 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California hospital is trying to terminate some 13 employees, and has already disciplined others, for poking around in Britney Spears’ medical records, the Los Angeles Times reports. The firings come after bosses at UCLA Medical Center specifically warned employees about unnecessary perusal of patient files on the morning of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Britney Spears • nurses • hospitals • discipline • UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital • confidential information • psych ward • UCLA Medical Center • medical records

'They Took
My Daughter
Away From Me'

Family plans to sue insurer after teen dies awaiting liver transplant

Dec 21, 07 7:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The family of a 17-year-old whose insurer had refused to OK a liver transplant plans to sue the company in the wake of the girl's death, the Los Angeles Times reports. Leukemia patient Nataline Sarkisyan died after Cigna HealthCare refused to fund the transplant despite doctors’ recommendations. After online... More »

MORE ABOUT:
health care • health care industry • leukemia • liver • UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital • Cigna • Nataline Sarkisyan

2 Stories


from our news partners

PopEater.com