An appeals court has upheld a family's $9.5 million jury award after a physician left an 18-inch sponge in a patient's abdomen that remained in her stomach for 5 years. During the surgery, performed ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A jury has awarded $10.5 million to a woman who had to have her leg amputated after University of Louisville Hospital personnel left a sponge inside her during heart surgery years ...

Five California hospitals, including one in Fresno, were fined by the California Department of Public Health on Thursday for issues surrounding patient care. Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital was ...

A woman who had her leg amputated after healthcare workers from University of Louisville (Ky.) Hospital left a sponge in her was awarded $10.5 million, according to a Louisville Courier Journal report ...

Five years after undergoing heart surgery at University of Louisville hospital, Carolyn Boerste discovered that there was a sponge inside of her. One leg amputation and one civil trial later, Boerste ...