Hospitals receiving fines (UPDATED)

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_20763660/hospitals-receiving-fines

Chapman Medical Center, Orange County $75,000

Chinese Hospital, San Francisco $50,000

Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno $50,000

Kaiser Oakland $75,000

Kaiser San Diego $50,000

Kaiser San Francisco $75,000

Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles $75,000

Mad River Community Hospital, Arcata $50,000

Motion Picture and Television Hospital, Woodland Hills $50,000

San Joaquin General Hospital, French Camp $25,000

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose $75,000

Southwest Healthcare System, Riverside County $100,000

UC San Diego Medical Center $75,000

Source: State Department of Public Health

Multiple Bay Area hospitals are among several others statewide that will face administrative penalties and fines totaling $825,000 due to noncompliance with licensing requirements necessary to ensure the safety of patients.

The California Department of Public Health announced Friday that Chinese Hospital and Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco as well as Kaiser Foundation Hospital-Oakland/Richmond were among 13 hospitals statewide to be assessed the penalties.

Chinese Hospital will be penalized $50,000 in its first administrative penalty for failure to implement its established policies and procedures for feeding tube insertion.

Meanwhile Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland/Richmond will face a $75,000 fine each in their second administrative penalties. Health officials say the San Francisco facility is being fined for failing to follow surgical policies and procedures resulting in a patient having to undergo another surgery to remove a foreign object. The Oakland facility's fine stems from failure to follow established policies and procedures relating to their cardiac paging system.

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