All Articles Tagged With: "Wrong Site Surgery"
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Hospital Wrong Site Surgery Problems Results in Fine for Safety Violations
Rhode Island Hospital has to pay $150,000 in state fines and is required to install new monitoring equipment in operating rooms following a violation of safety policies that resulted in surgeons operating on the wrong finger of a patient last month. The surgical mistake was the at least the fifth wrong-site surgery at the [...]
Rhode Island Hospital Performed Surgery Wrong Body Part for Fifth Time
The Rhode Island Department of Health is investigating Rhode Island Hospital in Providence after the hospital admitted to operating on the wrong body part for another patient, marking at least the fifth wrong-site surgery at the hospital since 2007.
Wrong Site Surgery Lawsuit Filed Over Operation on Wrong Knee
An orthopedic surgery lawsuit has been filed over medical mistakes at a Chicago-area hospital where doctors operated on the wrong knee, causing permanent injury for the plaintiff.
