A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that all incidents of abusive, unsanitary, or illegal health care practices should be condemned and prevented and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Bill: 113-sres-134
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2013-05-08
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Crime prevention

Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Health care quality

Health personnel
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3263)

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p> Expresses the sense of the Senate that all incidents of abusive, unsanitary, or illegal health care practices should be condemned and prevented and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.</p>

tv_txt: III 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 134 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 8, 2013 Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mrs. Boxer , Mrs. Shaheen , and Mr. Franken ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Senate that all incidents of abusive, unsanitary, or illegal health care practices should be condemned and prevented and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Whereas in recent years there have been rare and tragic incidents of willful violations of law, human dignity, and standards of care across a variety of health care settings that have exposed trusting patients to death and disease, and shocked the conscience of the United States, including— (1) a physician at the Women’s Medical Society of Philadelphia who is rightfully facing multiple criminal charges related to horrific practices; (2) health care practitioners at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada who exposed 40,000 patients to hepatitis C through unsanitary practices; (3) an Oklahoma dentist who exposed as many as 7,000 patients to HIV and hepatitis B and C through unsanitary practices; and (4) a nursing director at Kern Valley nursing home in California who, for her own convenience, inappropriately medicated patients using antipsychotic drugs, resulting in the death of at least 1 patient: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the Senate that all incidents of abusive, unsanitary, or illegal health care practices should be condemned and prevented and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.