{"id":1789,"date":"2016-01-27T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:03:48","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-senates-investigation-of-tainted-medical-scopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look At The Senate\u2019s Investigation Of Tainted Medical Scopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Duodenoscope%20Investigation%20FINAL%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Senate investigation recently found<\/a> that 16 hospitals around the U.S. failed to file mandatory paperwork with the federal government after patients at their hospitals became infected or died from the use of tainted medical scopes.<br \/>\nKaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.KHN\u2019s Chad Terhune, who reported on\u00a0the story for the Los Angeles Times, was interviewed on KCRW\u2019s Press Play With Madeleine Brand show about the investigation and steps the\u00a0scope maker is taking to stop the infections. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/a-closer-look-at-the-senates-investigation-of-tainted-medical-scopes\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25603322&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--mlf6KQI1HM3pYdyRGXeW-grkqRxed9a3ep_HeiddDjoI-fEaWljnooKVFrLhNMXjYkcRFvpkr4rDehc2NbGqOMmsKQw&amp;_hsmi=25603322\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Health News) A Senate investigation recently found that 16 hospitals around the U.S. failed to file mandatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}