5 hospitals in the spotlight for medical errors — and how they're fixing them

After reporting recent patient care errors, many hospitals are working to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors.

Becker has tracked five hospitals in this news since May, due to medical errors, safety issues, and patient deaths. Here are five hospitals and how they respond to patient error:

According to surveillance reports, liver transplantation at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs Medical Center showed more patient deaths and transplant failures than expected - but the administrator said spikes were temporary

The university administrator said the program's failure rate of transplantation and mortality has declined since 2016. Dr. Hemming and college said the program has completed a higher quality assessment of "loss and death of all grafts within one year after transplant" and identified and implemented improvements.

Kent Hospital, based in Warwick, Kentucky, agreed to agree with the State Health Department to spend at least $ 1.7 million on the 100-day Turnaround Program to improve patient safety and quality of care It concluded. The contract was signed on June 22 and was done after four separate operations and procedural errors at Kent Hospital between December 2017 and May 2018.

The Rhode Island Health Department and the Providence Rhode Island Hospital signed an agreement that four patient errors occurred within 4 weeks on 4 June (February and March, 2018). Rhode Island hospital will take regulatory action against this error and will invest at least $ 1 million to agree to improve the safety of the various patients listed in the contract.

Baylor St. Luke Medical Center in Houston examined patients with very high mortality within a year after receiving a heart transplant and then set the heart transplant program invalid on June 1 for 14 days.

After 2 weeks quality review at the hospital, the heart transplant program was resumed on 15th June. After review, hospital staff expanded the role of Dr. Gabriel Loor, deputy director of adult cardiac surgery, improved criteria for patient selection, and reorganized patient care. The transplant committee reviews the plan and recommends necessary changes

In 2017, three patients at Boston Children's Hospital were affected by drug error and one patient died after 14 hours of antibiotic waiting. Patients waiting for antibiotics develop sepsis before dying 2 days later

After these incidents, this spring, the hospital implemented a rapid treatment of sepsis patients and administered the correct anesthetic propofol.

Among the improvement plan over 63 pages, the Boston Children's Association recognized that "including the possibility of similar events occurring in other areas" and "need to focus more on response to specific events" He said that. Sex. "

A reporter who investigated the heart hospital at Houston Hospital replied to the critics, "We are supporting our report."

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