Medical University Hospital and over 10 other SC hospitals face penalty after medical mistakes.
13 SC hospitals are being penalized by federal medicare program for making too many avoidable mistakes that could have harmed patients. Such mistakes as catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central-line bloodstream infections and a third category called “serious complications,” such as blood clots after surgery or wounds that split open following an operation.
These hospitals will lose %1 of their Medicare payments for one fiscal year.
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