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Med Mal News

BY ALM Staff
January 31, 2013

California Hospitals Fined for Lapses

After concluding that several health care facilities violated licensing rules, and that those blunders caused or could have caused serious injury or death to patients, California's Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently issued administrative fines against 10 hospital facilities. The agency announced the sanctions on Dec. 20, 2012. One faciility, Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center of Mission Viejo, received the highest total fines: $100,000 for each of two surgical mistakes, both of which required the patients involved to undergo a second surgery. At the other nine hospitals, medication errors, surgical errors and failures to follow established policies were cited as reasons for the remaining 10 fines, which ranged from $100 to $100,000 per incident. All the penalized hospitals will now be required to provide CDPH with a plan for avoiding similar lapses in future.

New York Alters Law to Standardize Filing of Notices of Claim

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