Hospitals

A Connecticut family whose day-old infant died of a massive hemorrhage in February filed a lawsuit accusing a Greenwich Hospital delivery doctor of vacuuming the newborn’s head more than a dozen times during birth.

Adam Harding reports.

A woman allegedly slashed two nurses and a doctor in a pediatric ICU at a New Jersey hospital early Friday after an argument, authorities say. According to investigators, the suspect was visiting a patient in the intensive care unit at Newark Beth Israel Hospital on Lyons Avenue shortly after 7 a.m. when she got into a dispute with staff. It…

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents.

Brittany Mahomes shared that her and Patrick Mahomes’ 8-month-old son Bronze recently had a scary trip to the emergency room, which occurred not long after learning he has a severe peanut allergy.

Many hospitals say they’ve skipped, delayed or rationed medications, including critical cancer drugs, as the crisis across the country continues.

Residents at Mt. Sinai Morningside and West hospitals are threatening to strike if a contract deal isn’t reached. News 4’s Erica Byfield reports.

A major New York City hospital is facing allegations that hospital officials ignored a star physician’s rampant sexual abuse of patients for more than a decade.

It is important — if one has the choice — to consider the hospital you want for medical care. The hospital you choose generally plays a part in your risk of dying or your chances of recovery. Upwards of 250,000 people die every year from preventable errors in hospitals, according to The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group….

New York City opens its first new public hospital in more than 40 years Tuesday in Brooklyn, a nearly $1 billion project that, like its namesake, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is built to withstand powerful storms. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

New York City opened its first new public hospital in more than 40 years Tuesday in Brooklyn, a nearly $1 billion project that, like its namesake, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is built to withstand powerful storms. Funded by $923 million in FEMA money, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital on Ocean Parkway in Coney Island features an…

It’s named for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and her granddaughter will be on hand to make the occasion.