Parkland Hospital in Dallas Violated More Than 50 Safety Rules, Monitors’ Report Says
The Dallas Morning News—February 13th, 2012
Federally installed safety monitors found that Parkland Memorial Hospital violated more than 50 government health-care standards in recent months, jeopardizing patients through botched surgical procedures, medication errors and dozens of other flawed practices.
Those findings are contained in the 270-page report that Parkland leaders are refusing to release to the public, according to people with knowledge of the document. The public charity hospital also has recently distributed internal bulletins, obtained by The Dallas Morning News, alerting the staff to safety practices designed to prevent such failures.
The disclosures mark the first time breakdowns cited in the report have been revealed. The report, by Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group, delves into at least 15 problem areas identified since November, when the team began investigating the hospital’s safety practices.
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