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The California Department of Public Health fined 18 hospitals for state health code violations in which patients died. Each hospital was fined $25,000. Kathleen Billingsley, the director of the health department’s Center for Healthcare Quality, stated “The number of penalties will decrease and the quality of care will dramatically improve as hospitals take action to […]

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Dennis Tribble, Chief Health Offer for Health Technologies issued a statement recently urging hospitals to explore available technology that could greatly reduce pharmacy errors. Many hospitals still require their pharmacists and IV technicians to rely on manual calculations and hand-written lables, instead of taking advantage of technology like barcode scanning. Tribble also recommended that more […]

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The FDA announced today that Baxter Healthcare Corp. has voluntarily ceased production of multiple-dose vials of heparin after reports linking the drug to severe allergic reactions which have caused four deaths to date. Heparin, a blood-thinning drug, is used to treat blood clots in millions of patients nationwide, as well as being commonly administered just […]

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