This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
Here's your industry news spree for Wednesday, June 7th. First,
over 70 employees at Kaiser Zion Medical Center in San Diego signed a
petition for the facility to pause surgeries due to concerns of potential
contamination of surgical traits.
A surgical tech says some of the trays have black, gray,
and brown particles of an unknown substance dusting inside.
There are also black, greasy smears of unknown,
but not surgically approved substance.
In a statement to the San Diego Union Tribune,
Kaiser mentioned its commitment to safe, quality, and timely care.
It also says,
it confirmed that all measures we are taking to clean process and transport
surgical equipment to our Zion Medical Center for use is safe and medically
appropriate.
Kaiser Dick confirmed that surgical instruments used at Zion were currently
being cleaned and processed at a San Diego Medical Center.
This is because it found an issue with its hot water tank and equipment.
Second,
a new report from the Leapfrog group shows racial disparities in rates of
adverse events continue even at hospitals with top safety ratings.
Leapfrog safety grades are recognized as the only hospital ratings program,
solely based on a hospital's ability to protect patients from preventable
errors, accidents, injuries, and infections. In a report published today,
researchers from Leapfrog and the Urban Institute say quote,
little is known about the association between hospital safety grades and the
delivery of safe care is specific to a patient's racial ethnic background or
insurance.
They also say No evidence indicates whether safer overall care is associated
with narrowing disparities in patient safety among patients with different
racial ethnic backgrounds or among patients with different types of insurance.
Their research shows that overall care is safer for all racial groups at higher
graded hospitals. However,
black and Hispanic patients are still at an increased risk of certain adverse
safety events compared to white patients. Even at hospitals graded A and B,
black patients are more likely to experience surgery related complications
across all hospital safety grades.
Black patients face significant higher risk of stage three and four pressure
ulcers.
Hispanic patients also experience a higher risk of sepsis and respiratory
failure after surgery.
Researchers say these differences are also significant at higher greeted
hospitals compared to those with private insurance patients covered by Medicare
or Medicaid experience higher rates of adverse safety events.
Third,
a woman is charged in Georgia for stealing the identity of a Florida nurse and
using the stolen nursing license to care for patients.
Carissa Laws was employed as a licensed nurse at Walton Community Services.
She cared for eight people with disabilities who needed care from a licensed
nurse. The report says she used the license number of a nurse in Florida.
The prosecutor also says, MS.
Laws admitted to practicing as a nurse in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
New Hampshire, Florida, Georgia, and New Mexico.
She has an active warrant for her arrest in Vermont and pending charges in
Florida after the judge denied her bond.
MS laws will remain in Cobb County Jail until trial
fourth.
Transplants from organ donors who drowned are linked to mold infections and
higher death rates between 2011 and 21.
The CDC D reports that over 4,000 organs from over 1000 drowned donors
were transplanted in patients. In a new study,
the agency looks at the outcomes of nine organ transplant recipients from three
drowned donors.
They found a total of four instances of patients who acquired invasive mold
infections around seven days after a transplant.
They subsequently died an average of eight days later.
In every instance of a patient having an invasive mold infection after a
transplant, the patient died.
While the results do not show broad or inclusive trends for all researchers,
say clinicians should note it,
fifth Redondo Bot will join nurses on a healing trip to Costa Rica. Ms.
Spa was convicted for a fatal medication error that created a national
conversation about patient safety culture.
Nurse Erica will be hosting the seven day trip with Miss Bot in September.
Nurse Erica is a hospice nurse, nurse advocate,
and social media influencer based in Las Vegas.
Registration closes at the end of July.
The trip costs a little under $2,500 per person.
As of today, seven spots are still open. Thanks for listening.
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