CEO SUMMARY: At MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, blood transfusion errors led to two patients’ deaths in separate incidents last fall. Then, this spring, a patient died in the emergency department of Ben Taub Hospital following “an ineffective process in patient monitoring and communication of critical lab values.” State and […]
CMS Sanctioned Three Houston Hospitals, Labs
Each hospital had a patient death following mistakes in handling blood products or lab tests
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXVI No. 10 - July 22, 2019 Issue
