The state’s largest insurer notched a significant win Thursday in its two major cases with hospitals regarding its newest tiered network plan. Politicker Staff, PolitickerNJRead more
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NJ court says hospitals can keep internal error reviews private
NJ court says hospitals can keep internal error reviews private
By Anne Zieger | October 1, 2014
Dive Brief:
A New Jersey Supreme Court ruling has concluded that hospitals’ internal review reports written after adverse events occur should remain private.
The ruling relies on the 2004 Patient Safety Act, which protects healthcare worker confidentiality in an effort to let them be more candid when errors are made.
The ruling allows Valley Hospital of Ridgewood, NJ to keep a memo to itself that was written after events that led to allegations in a medical malpractice case.
Dive Insight:
According to the court, there is abundant reason to protect these privacy privileges. In its ruling, it noted that the legislators who drafted the Patient Safety Act had created an “absolute privilege,” bearing in mind that “healthcare professionals and other provider staff are more likely to effectively assess adverse events in a confidential setting, in which an employee need not fear recrimination for disclosing his or her own medical error, or that of a colleague.”
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/nj-court-says-hospitals-can-keep-internal-error-reviews-private/315443/
Widow of N.J. trooper disappointed by court decision to parole husband’s killer
Werner Foerster, killed during a traffic stop in 1973, escaped East Germany as a young man. Who would have thought that in 2014 the USA would be more like Police State East Germany ?
Widow of N.J. trooper disappointed by court decision to parole husband’s killer
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014, 6:41 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014, 11:41 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
She has been largely quiet over the decades about the murder of her state trooper husband on the New Jersey Turnpike as his death became entangled in a crime involving a black anti-government movement and an armed prison escape by a woman who remains one of the nation’s most wanted fugitives.
But as one of Trooper Werner Foerster’s killers moved a step closer to freedom this week, his wife agreed on Tuesday to discuss some of their life together. She touched on her husband’s escape from communist East Germany as a young man and his reason for joining the state police after the couple moved to New Jersey and had a son.
“He just wanted to have a better life for us,” said Rosa Foerster, 73, who lives in Florida.
On Monday, a panel of appellate judges overturned a 2010 state Parole Board ruling denying parole for 77-year-old Sundiata Acoli, a member of the Black Liberation Army who was traveling with Joanne Chesimard and another man when they were pulled over for a faulty taillight by police in East Brunswick on May 2, 1973.
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