The Maryland law requires hospitals to publicly report and analyze errors such as wrong site surgery, falls, infections from an IV line and delays in treatment.
State regulators found that the hospital performed inadequate investigations into the errors and did not classify the errors by level of seriousness, as required by law.
The agreement also requires the hospital to develop a $65,000 patient safety program.
Read the Washington Post’s report on the Doctors Community Hospital fine.
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