Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md., has been fined $30,000 for failure to report errors that resulted in patient death and serious harm as is required by state law, according to a report by the Washington Post.
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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