This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
Who's your industry news brief for Monday,
May 20th First Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno,
California is receiving its fifth fine in four years.
California's finding the system over $78,000 after a cancer patient
died following surgery where a foreign object was left inside the individual.
This is its second fine for leaving an object in a person after surgery.
The fine is reportedly the highest in state history against a hospital in the
category of immediate jeopardy. Since 2015,
the hospital has been fined five times for various procedural violations,
specifically related to immediate jeopardy fines.
The total cost is over $220,000.
Beckers has reached out to Community Regional Medical Center.
We will update the online story if more information becomes available.
Second.
Allegheny Health Network is rolling out a digital nursing program at one of its
hospitals. It plans to expand system-wide. By the end of next year.
The initiative will launch at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.
Digital nurses will help with admissions and discharges asking and answering
patient questions, as well as providing education.
The technology will include a smart tv, smart tablet, and mounted camera.
The digital nursing team will eventually have 60 employees who will work from
home.
The hospital hopes to include charting and active patient monitoring and digital
nurses responsibilities. Third,
the wife of a former patient is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Tristar
Centennial Medical Center. The patient, Bobby Ray Stark,
was receiving treatment in the hospital for bed source and a foot infection.
He had other underlying conditions including blindness and weakness on one side.
Due to a previous stroke, Mr.
Stark was wearing a non-rebreather mask to provide oxygen when he coded hospital
workers attempted to revive him using a defibrillator shock. However,
the mask was not removed prior to the shock ignited.
This caused significant burns and later his death Beckers has reached out to
Tristar Centennial for comment.
We will update the online story as more information becomes available.
Fourth,
the main Center for Disease Control and Prevention says a main resident died
from Powassan virus, which is a rare tickborne disease.
The department says the adult developed neurological symptoms and was likely
infected in May. This is the first death from Powassan this year.
The CDC says there are no approved therapies or vaccines.
The virus can be acquired through bites from infected deer ticks,
and woodchuck ticks.
Over 150 physicians are striking today at Elmhurst Hospital Center,
which is part of NYC Health Plus Hospitals.
This five day walkout is the first physician strike at a New York City Hospital
in over 30 years.
The strike involves members of the Committee of interns and residents.
This union represents 170 physicians who work at Elmhurst Hospital and are
employed by the School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
The union has been negotiating with Mount Sinai for 10 months.
Union members say Mount Sinai does not match salaries for public hospital
physicians with salaries for non-unionized residents at facilities in wealthier
parts of the city.
A Mount Sinai spokesperson says the system is committed to finding a mutually
acceptable solution. Thanks for listening.
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