Charles Ornstein

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Charles Ornstein, in collaboration with Tracy Weber, was a lead reporter on a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times titled "The Troubles at King/Drew" hospital that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service in 2005. His ProPublica series, with Tracy Weber, "When Caregivers Harm: California's Unwatched Nurses" was a finalist for a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Ornstein reported for the Times starting in 2001, in the last five years largely in partnership with Weber. Earlier, Ornstein spent five years as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News. He is president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and a former Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow.

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Dozens of Criminal Registered Nurses Identified by California Regulators

Dec. 26, 2009, 2:10 a.m.

Fingerprint checks of thousands of California nurses not previously subject to background checks have turned up dozens of convictions of crimes ranging from petty theft to murder. The checks are now required in part because of investigations by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times.

Calif. Registered Nursing Board Follows Up on Our Nurses Stories

Dec. 26, 2009, 1 a.m.

The California Board of Registered Nursing has taken actions against nurses featured in a series of stories by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times. Among the actions were revocations and suspensions of licenses.

A ‘Crazy’ Way for an Industry to Operate

Dec. 5, 2009, 9:06 a.m.

Temp Firms a Magnet for Unfit Nurses

Dec. 5, 2009, 7:52 a.m.

California Adopts Stricter Rules for Drug Abusers in the Health Industry

Nov. 20, 2009, 8:47 a.m.

Addressing concerns about health workers who abuse drugs, often stealing hem from patients, California will now require nurses, dentists and other health workers in state-run recovery programs to take at least 104 drug tests in their first year, and a single positive test will remove a worker, at least temporarily.