Reflecting on concerns at Edgerton Hospital
As The Gazette’s Neil Johnson reported Wednesday, state Department of Health and Human Services investigators found that Edgerton Hospital failed to follow its policies for staffing nurses during more than a dozen night shifts. A state report says the staff also did not properly report an August cardiac emergency.
The report also suggests:
--The hospital let respiratory emergency response training for some nurses lapse.
--The staff sometimes turned down or off the hospital’s 911 emergency scanner.
--The staff failed to follow protocol by not immediately reporting details of the Aug. 9 nurse’s emergency to the hospital board of trustees.
All are serious concerns, particularly because they put the hospital at risk of losing its Medicaid and Medicare funding. Has the hospital responded properly and put sufficient plans in place to correct these deficiencies?
This will be the subject of The Gazette’s editorial Friday.
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or gpeck@gazettextra.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook
Dec 7, 2012 at 12:14 p.m.
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IJ's in hospitals rarely make the news. What I think would also be interesting. Why is SSM who only holds a 49% non-controlling stake using their spokes people to address this situation? IJ's in a hospital rarely if ever make it to press, how did anyone find out about this? 29 days were cited that's amazingly bad press 20% chance of having not enough staff to care for you. Honestly, the medical community as a whole does a terrible job of risk management. This is not a single person problem, but a system problem that went unattended for months upon months.
Dec 7, 2012 at 10:14 a.m.
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Are an adequate number of nurses on staff during the night shift? Are nurses working more than a 40 hour week? Is it a nursing "concern", staffing "concern" and/or administrative"concern"? How does one plan sufficiently for emergencies? Is it really a hospital deficiency? Do a dozen night shift incidents constitute a pattern? What are the legal ramifications? Do we think that someone's going to pay? One person already has paid, dearly.
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