North Carolina hospital under fire for serious errors, will lose CMS funding
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, June 11, 2008
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Franklin Regional Medical Center of Louisburg, NC, has been the subject of three federal investigations sine December 2007 when a man undergoing elective knee surgery died of heart failure, reports the News and Observer. The three infractions found by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include failure to record pertinent medical information, nurse anesthetists working unsupervised, and problems in the pharmaceutical and respiratory services, the article says. CMS says that it will deny the hospital any Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement beginning June 22.
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