University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics address survey concerns
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, October 10, 2007
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After being surveyed in June and garnering less than favorable marks, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics have resolved the issues found, reports the Associated Press. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) surveyed the facility and found serious patient safety violations, including nine instances of unreported patient deaths occurring while patients were in restraints. The hospital maintains that none of these patients' deaths resulted from being in restraints. State inspectors recently inspected the facility and found that the patient safety violations had been corrected.
Other patient safety violations included a failure to meet infection control standards, old medications and suture materials, and lack of a system in place to meet patients' nutritional needs. The hospital says it has a submitted a corrective plan and is waiting for CMS to survey the facility again to check the plan and if the hospital is complying with it.
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