Hospital patient deaths highlight medical failures
An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to brain damage after staff didn’t respond to an urgent request for heart monitoring. Short-staffed night shift nurses falsely documented that a 14-year-old patient had taken […] The post Two deaths, failure to isolate infectious diseases led to Mission’s latest Immediate Jeopardy appeared first on Asheville Watchdog.