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California hospitals fined for errors

Quality Improvement Monitor, November 2, 2007

California officials last week fined nine hospitals for infractions that put patients at risk of injury or death, including a case in which a woman died after writhing unattended in the emergency room lobby, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The fines, which were $25,000 apiece, are the first the state has levied under a new law that went into effect this year. The legislation aims to give state regulators more teeth, Kathleen Billingsley, deputy director of the Center for Healthcare Quality at the California Department of Public Health, told the Times.

"There is a sense of immediacy and responsiveness on the part of the provider to correct or modify the processes that have led to these quality problems," she told the paper.

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