SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State health officials fined 12 California hospitals $785,000 for mistakes that endangered patients on Thursday, including a doctor’s improper use of a surgical device that investigators said resulted in a patient’s death.
Three of the fines involved incidents where patients had objects left inside them after operations and had to undergo additional surgery. Others fines involved wrongly administered medications, the California Department of Public Health said.
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