King/Drew Stripped of Accredited Standing | LAT | 2.2.05
A national healthcare accrediting agency revoked its seal of approval Tuesday from troubled Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, a rare sanction that underscored repeated lapses in patient care at the hospital. …
More broadly, the move is a vote of no confidence by medical experts in the hospital’s quality. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations credentials about 4,600 hospitals nationwide. King/Drew is only the second in the last year to lose the panel’s accreditation and one of just 13 since 1998. …
The revocation follows the inspection of King/Drew by the commission’s staff in August. The inspection found incompetent employees, failures to prevent hospital-acquired infections, inconsistent patient care, failure to maintain medical equipment and incomplete medical charts. …
The accreditation loss, which is effective immediately, will require some patients to be shifted to other hospitals, primarily the private St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and the publicly owned County-USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance. Doing so will cost $3 million to $5 million over the next six months, Garthwaite said. …
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the national group that oversees doctor-training programs, generally requires hospitals where teaching takes place to be accredited. If a hospital loses accreditation, the group decides whether to allow training programs to continue. …
Interesting ad at the bottom of the online article…I wonder how long that will be there.
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Talk about a targeted ad!
I feel bad for their residents. Yes, everyone will be impacted, but I identify most with the residents in this sort of situation.
I wonder who in LA County will be losing their jobs over this? Is there no outside supervision? I cannot believe JACHO would just pull the rug out, there had to have been warnings in the past that went unheeded.
Talk about a targeted ad!
I feel bad for their residents. Yes, everyone will be impacted, but I identify most with the residents in this sort of situation.
I wonder who in LA County will be losing their jobs over this? Is there no outside supervision? I cannot believe JACHO would just pull the rug out, there had to have been warnings in the past that went unheeded.