The medical center took immediate corrective actions after state inspectors uncovered a pair of dangerous incidents that put patients in immediate jeopardy of serious injury or possible death.
During an anxious week in April, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center teetered on the brink of losing its Medicare funding after state inspectors uncovered a pair of dangerous incidents that put patients in immediate jeopardy of serious injury or possible death.
The hospital’s second immediate jeopardy situation occurred March 12, when a patient with dementia and a history of falls attempted to walk unassisted in his room and tripped over a device used to prevent blood clots. The patient sustained a fractured hip and was found on the floor by a nurse. An alarm designed to prevent such falls by alerting staff when a patient leaves a bed had not been turned on.
Although Long Beach Memorial is no longer in jeopardy of losing its Medicare accreditation, it isn’t necessarily in the clear, said Leah Binder, president and chief executive officer of the Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C., organization that grades hospitals based on patient safety. State inspectors issued immediate jeopardy citations to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center after a doctor mistakingly gave cancer drugs to 88-year-old Margaret Davis
“I went over all my mother’s current medications with him,” she said in the March 22 CDPH complaint. “I had also gone over all my mother’s current medications when she had been admitted to St Mary’s. I managed my mother’s medication for years.” “She told me several medications I recognized and then said anastrozole,” Davis said. “I told her my mother did not take that drug.”
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