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Fines (Continued from Page One)
St. Marys Medical Center in San Francisco received its rst administrative penalty and a $50,000 ne for not properly connecting the tubes of a portable heart-lung machine. The machine disconnected when the paitent was lifted into an ambulance at the facility, leading to his death.
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armpit. The sponge was removed some time later in a physicians ofce. UCI Medical Center received its fourth penalty and a $75,000 ne for leaving a sponge inside a patients abdomen. A second surgery was required to remove it. Kaisers South San Francisco facility received its third penalty and a $75,000 ne for leaving a surgical sponge in a patient who underwent tumor surgery. The sponge was removed months later after the surgical wound failed to heal properly. Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco received its rst penalty and a $50,000 ne for leaving a surgical sponge in a patient. Two traveling nurses were involved in the surgery, leading to a mix-up in the nal sponge count. Simi Valley Hospital received its rst penalty and a $25,000 ne for leaving a sponge in a patient who underwent a hysterectomy in 2007. The sponge was not discovered until last year. Other Penalties Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center received its third penalty and a $25,000 ne for a 2008 incident when a licensed vocational nurse removed a patients gastronomy tube without a physicians permission. The patient required surgery to replace the tube, and had to take blood thinners for months after discharge.
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Arbitrator Says Marin General Won Case
Marin General Hospital received a fraction of what it was seeking from Sutter Health to settle a years-long dispute over siphoned revenues. Nevertheless, Marin was declared the prevailing party earlier this week by the arbitrator who decided the case earlier this year. Arbitrator Rebecca Westerfield, a retired judge, ordered Sutter earlier this summer to pay Marin $21.5 million, far less than the $120 million it sought from the Sacramento-based hospital chain. Marin had claimed Sutter had siphoned revenue from the facility during the 25 years it had operated the hospital under a lease agreement. Westerfield ruled against Marins specific claim about siphoning revenue, but did order Sutter to reimburse the hospital for money it appropriated for its own employee pension plan, the underrecruitment of physicians and other peripheral issues. With Westerfields declaration that Marin prevailed in the litigation, it allows Marin to seek reimbursement for its legal fees, which officials said amounted to millions of dollars.
Surgical Error Penalties John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Indio received its fth penalty and a $50,000 ne for a surgical error involving a six-year-old patient. The patients tongue underwent a cutting procedure rather than the removal of a lesion as planned. Staff did not perform a required time out prior to surgery to ensure they were performing the correct procedure. Menlo Park Surgical Hospital received its rst penalty and a $50,000 ne when the wrong surgical instrument was used during a pelvic examination, leading to a ruptured bladder. Retained Object Penalties Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno received its fourth administrative penalty and a $50,000 ne when a surgical towel was left in a patients abdomen, requiring a second surgery to remove it. St. Jude Medical Center in Orange County received its fourth penalty and a $100,000 ne for leaving a surgical sponge in their
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associated with inpatient hospital care, and 26% was pegged to outpatient care. Total healthcare costs averaged $15,653 per month. Once enrolled in PFC, children receive more extensive pain and symptom management, along with art and music therapy. Parents received training on how to use any home healthcare equipment they need. They were also given access to an aroundthe-clock urgent care hotline, occasional breaks in caring for the child, and bereavement counseling if the child died.
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after the system conducted several stakeholder surveys in 2011. We were gratied to see how important the Rideout legacy is to the community, said Rideout Health Chief Executive Ofcer Terri Hamilton. The name keeps us rooted in our history and mission, while the streamlined brand is more easily paired with both clinical and business partners to expand healthcare resources for our patients. The rebranding comes as Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville is in the midst of a $225 million expansion and renovation.
After enrollment in the program, costs for hospitalization were reduced to 47% of the total, while less costly outpatient care grew to 39% of the total. As a result, total healthcare costs dropped to $13,976 per month. Moreover, families also reported decreased levels of anxiety, greater condence in being able to care for their child, and higher levels of sleep. UCLA researchers recommended that the program be expanded beyond the 11 counties in which it currently operates, pending full analysis of the pilot project data.
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