12 California Hospitals Fined For Patient Safety Violations, Including 4 In Bay Area
Bay City news reports that 4 Bay Area hospitals and 12 total California hospitals have been assessed administrative fines as the result of medical licensing violations that are likely to cause death or serious injury to their patients.
These hospitals include:
• Santa Cruz Domincan Hospital;
• Burlingame Mills-Peninsula Medical Center;
• San Francisco Kaiser Foundation Hospital; and
• Martinez Contra Costa Regional Medical Center.
Medical providers are supposed to offer use care and support during our most critical moments. When physicians, nurses or other hospital staff provide us care that falls below requisite standard, they may be guilty of medical malpractice.
Here, the hospitals cited all made significant errors that caused patients harm.
Among the medical errors cited include not following surgical policies and procedures, not following policies and procedures for safe distribution and administration of medication, and not following policies and procedures for on-going patient monitoring and assessment of patient care.
In one incident a the Contra Costa Medical Center, a nurse failed to check a drug label and gave an epidural medication rather than Oxycontin to a 25-year-old woman who gave premature birth. Kaiser Hospital was penalized for leaving a fetal scalp electrode inside a Cesarean section patient. The woman suffered a serious infection. At the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, surgeons left a small sponge fragment in the eye of a glaucoma patient.
Although not every unfavorable outcome constitutes medical malpractice, where an error occurs and you suffer harm, it is important to speak to an experienced medical malpractice attorney for a consultation. If you believe you have been a victim of a medical error, please contact the dedicated San Francisco medical malpractice lawyers at Bostwick & Peterson, LLP today.
