Things can really get tough on some things. But the sad part is that it can happen at the most vulnerable times of people who are completely helpless. Take for example the patients who can do nothing but fully trust their lives in the doctor’s hands. However, there is no absolute safety in medicine. Medical errors can happen when they should not. And this is supported by what just happened in California.
State Department of Public Health officials fined 13 California hospitals for medical errors that killed or seriously injured patients. Health officials say hospital officials must submit plans to correct the problems that cost lives even.
Other hospitals fined are the following:
Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa
Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland/Richmond
San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
Santa Clare Valley Medical Center, San Jose
Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego
University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego
State Department of Public Health officials fined 13 California hospitals for medical errors that killed or seriously injured patients. Health officials say hospital officials must submit plans to correct the problems that cost lives even.
- Los Angeles Community Hospital, Norwalk Campus, LA – $50,000 for the death of a patient who was supposed to be restrained and supervised, but was instead left to repeatedly pull out his tracheotomy tube until found unresponsive in his bed.
- California Hospital Medical Center, LA – $50,000 for misdiagnosis of ectopic pregnancy which caused the women suppressed immune system as well as mouth, throat and skin sores.
- Marina Del Rey Hospital, LA – failure to monitor the oxygen levels of a patient that caused her to pass out.
- St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton – death of a patient because nurses failed to notice man’s monitor disconnected.
- Western Medical Center, Santa Ana – left surgical sponge in the patient
- Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach – MRI machine sucked a patient on a metal gurney and broke her leg and foot.
- John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Indio – failure to monitor patients and medication
Other hospitals fined are the following:
Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa
Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland/Richmond
San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
Santa Clare Valley Medical Center, San Jose
Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego
University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego
