SACRAMENTO, Calif. –  State health officials fined 12 California hospitals $785,000 for mistakes that concerned patients on Thursday, including a doctor’s crude use of a surgical device that investigators pronounced resulted in a patient’s death.
Three of a fines concerned incidents where patients had objects left inside them after operations and had to bear additional surgery. Others fines concerned poorly administered medications, a California Department of Public Health said.
Officials pronounced a Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland was fined $100,000 after a alloy unsuccessful to follow instruction on how to safely use a laser during surgery. State regulators pronounced that as a consequence, a studious suffered a vascular embolism and died.
Another Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Diego was fined $75,000 after a alloy private a wrong kidney from a studious during a medicine in late 2010. A state news pronounced a detriment of that aged patient’s usually healthy kidney has left him pang from ongoing tired and depression.
Kaiser pronounced all doctors regulating lasers during a Oakland sanatorium perceived laser reserve training, and in a wrong kidney case, doctors are compulsory to endorse a correct surgical site by looking during CT scans.
The fines for hospitals in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Francisco, Tulare, Marin, Alameda and Del Norte counties ranged from $10,000 to $100,000.
California Hospitals Fined For Endangering Patients
California Hospitals Fined For Endangering Patients
California Hospitals Fined For Endangering Patients
California Hospitals Fined For Endangering Patients