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Fresno Hospital Fined 5th Time in 4 Years Over Patient Safety Violations; New York City Hospital Physicians Strike · Becker’s Healthcare - Clinical Leadership Podcast

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
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  Who's your industry news brief for Monday,
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  May 20th First Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno,
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  California is receiving its fifth fine in four years.
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  California's finding the system over $78,000 after a cancer patient
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  died following surgery where a foreign object was left inside the individual.
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  This is its second fine for leaving an object in a person after surgery.
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  The fine is reportedly the highest in state history against a hospital in the
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  category of immediate jeopardy. Since 2015,
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  the hospital has been fined five times for various procedural violations,
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  specifically related to immediate jeopardy fines.
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  The total cost is over $220,000.
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  Beckers has reached out to Community Regional Medical Center.
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  We will update the online story if more information becomes available.
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  Second.
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  Allegheny Health Network is rolling out a digital nursing program at one of its
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  hospitals. It plans to expand system-wide. By the end of next year.
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  The initiative will launch at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.
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  Digital nurses will help with admissions and discharges asking and answering
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  patient questions, as well as providing education.
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  The technology will include a smart tv, smart tablet, and mounted camera.
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  The digital nursing team will eventually have 60 employees who will work from
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  home.
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  The hospital hopes to include charting and active patient monitoring and digital
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  nurses responsibilities. Third,
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  the wife of a former patient is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Tristar
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  Centennial Medical Center. The patient, Bobby Ray Stark,
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  was receiving treatment in the hospital for bed source and a foot infection.
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  He had other underlying conditions including blindness and weakness on one side.
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  Due to a previous stroke, Mr.
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  Stark was wearing a non-rebreather mask to provide oxygen when he coded hospital
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  workers attempted to revive him using a defibrillator shock. However,
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  the mask was not removed prior to the shock ignited.
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  This caused significant burns and later his death Beckers has reached out to
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  Tristar Centennial for comment.
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  We will update the online story as more information becomes available.
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  Fourth,
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  the main Center for Disease Control and Prevention says a main resident died
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  from Powassan virus, which is a rare tickborne disease.
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  The department says the adult developed neurological symptoms and was likely
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  infected in May. This is the first death from Powassan this year.
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  The CDC says there are no approved therapies or vaccines.
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  The virus can be acquired through bites from infected deer ticks,
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  and woodchuck ticks.
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  Over 150 physicians are striking today at Elmhurst Hospital Center,
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  which is part of NYC Health Plus Hospitals.
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  This five day walkout is the first physician strike at a New York City Hospital
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  in over 30 years.
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  The strike involves members of the Committee of interns and residents.
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  This union represents 170 physicians who work at Elmhurst Hospital and are
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  employed by the School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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  The union has been negotiating with Mount Sinai for 10 months.
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  Union members say Mount Sinai does not match salaries for public hospital
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  physicians with salaries for non-unionized residents at facilities in wealthier
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  parts of the city.
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  A Mount Sinai spokesperson says the system is committed to finding a mutually
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  acceptable solution. Thanks for listening.
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