N.J. Hospitals Crisis: Charles Cullen Was Not The Problem, He Was A Symptom
Charles Cullen is every hospital’s nightmare: A deranged nurse who methodically murders patients by giving them hard-to-detect overdoses of medications.
Cullen, who was arrested in 2004 after a 16-year crime spree made considerably easier because a severe nursing shortage enabled him to go undetected as he moved from hospital to hospital, told authorities that he murdered as many as 45 patients at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
As a result of Cullen cooperating with authorities in a plea bargain that will keep him behind bars for life, hospital procedures were tightened with his input and the New Jersey legislature passed the Nurse Cullen Act. This requires nurses to be fingerprinted and established a system whereby the New Jersey Board of Nursing is notified if a nurse has any kind of brush with the law, no matter how minor.
The Nurse Cullen Act would seem to be a good thing on its face, but it is a safe bet that New Jersey hospitals have killed many more patients than Charles Cullen did as its health-care system has imploded.
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3 Responses to “N.J. Hospitals Crisis: Charles Cullen Was Not The Problem, He Was A Symptom”
Leave it to the one of the bluest states in the union to pass rules that increase the costs of overhead while hospitals are going bankrupt.
If you want to look like a real journalist instead of a press release writer for the Democratic Party, you should at least say how many of the Hospitals are for-profit and how many are not-for-prift. You could also mention is the state medical insurance rules also affect the hospitals.
I guess when Filipino nurses are given the choice of state to immigrant to, they avoid New Jersey (high costs, high taxes, lousy working conditions) and go to the bad old red state or if they are going to pay high taxes, they can just go to California.
The reason politicians do not care about healthcare is that they see it as a career field for immigrants and dumb whites. You do not see the children of the wealthy politicaisn thinking about a career in healthcare unless they can combine the two and do something like public health.
SD:
Aside from your usual racist spittle, I count no fewer than six factual errors. Way to go!
New quality rules increase overhead because someone has to be paid to gather the documents and ensure the fingerprints are taken and that the data is reported. Those data gathers are joking called clip board nurses and are overhead.
Second, are you really claiming that all of the Hospitals in New Jersey are for-profit hospitals who are just greedy.
Are you claiming that the U.S. Hospitals have not tried to make up for the lack of U.S. trained nurses by importing large numbers of nurses from the Phillipines and other countries.
Are you going to claim that given the choice that immigrant nurses may want to work in low tax states instead of New Jersey.
And please point out the children of politicians who are nurses or other allied healthcare workers. The two that I can think of are Sarah Gore and Vanessa Kerry who both wanted to go into Public Health which is where Medicine and politics intersect the most and is fartherest away from insurance companies and direct patient care.