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Health Care & Hospital Law

Sep. 9, 2011

Regulators fine hospitals for violations

The California Department of Public Health on Wednesday assessed fines totaling $650,000 against 12 California hospitals.

By Mandy Jackson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The California Department of Public Health on Wednesday assessed fines totaling $650,000 against 12 California hospitals.

In 2009 and 2010, medical staff at those hospitals gave inappropriate drugs or the wrong doses to patients, failed to monitor a patient at risk of falling, left surgical devices in patients, or failed to provide continuous cardiac monitoring.

CDPH assessed first-time, $50,000 penalties against te...

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