When Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley swung by Orr Elementary School in Washington, D.C., recently, he explained to the 100 kids circled around him that he’d already exercised that day.The number of medical errors in Indiana hospitals and surgery centers increased last year to 107, the most in the five years state officials have tracked serious mistakes, according to a report released today by the Indiana State Department of Health.
Parkview Hospital reported five errors, a tie for the most of any individual hospital in the state. The tally included one surgery performed on the wrong body part, two cases of serious bed sores, one suicide or attempted suicide resulting in serious disability and one death or serious disability associated with a fall in the hospital at 2200 Randallia Drive.
Lutheran Hospital’s two reportable errors were related to serious bed sores. Bed sores, or pressure ulcers, were the most common error, with 34 cases being reported in 2010. Foreign objects left in surgery patients was the second-most reported mistake with 33 incidents.
Dupont Hospital, which is also owned and operated by Lutheran Health Network, reported one case of a foreign object being left inside a surgery patient and one death or serious disability associated with a fall in the hospital at 2520 E. Dupont Road.
St. Joseph Hospital, also owned by Lutheran Health Network, did not report any serious errors.
For more on this story, including the number of serious errors reported for all hospitals and surgery centers in northeast Indiana and responses from hospital officials, see Tuesday’s print edition of The Journal Gazette or visit www.journalgazette.net after 3 a.m. Tuesday.
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