Local hospital fined $25k: From the L.A. Times today in a story titled, “Eleven California hospitals cited for violations leading to death, serious injury.”
“Redwood Memorial Hospital, Fortuna, Humboldt County. The hospital failed to ensure the health and safety of a patient when it did not follow its surgical policy and procedure. This resulted in a patient having to undergo a second surgery to remove a retained foreign object. This is the first administrative penalty issued to this
This article appears in Mall Town.
yepper….I had h attack and ecg machine not working I told rwm not to charge me for the ecg …they didnt but did bill medicare.
So it goes and so I won’t.
alost as bad as frying a kid with radiation as in Mad River Hospital. What ever happened in that case?
Intersting point, I believe an earlier article in NCJ stated Redwood Memorial Hosp. had the best numbers for surviving heart attack.