California Health Department Issues Penality to UCSF

The California Department of Public Health announced today that 13 California hospitals were slammed with "administrative penalties of $25,000 per violation" due to said hospitals failed to comply with licensing requirements that caused serious injury or death to patients. According to a CDPH report, the University of California, San Francisco Medical Centerwas fined after "[t]he hospital failed to ensure the safety of a patient by not establishing a safe and effective system for the administration of high-risk medications. This is the facility’s second administrative penalty." Other hospitals penalized were John Muir Medical Center in Concord (who "failed to follow its own policies and procedures for restraining a patient for radiological exams") and the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance (where a patient had to "undergo a second surgery to remove a retained foreign object," resulting in their death).