Hospital Cited on Serious Events

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

A Montgomery County hospital failed to report to the state that four of it patients had to be transferred to other facilities due to changes in their health status.
In a report just made public by the Pennsylvania Health Department the four patients at the 305 bed Eagleville Hospital were transferred to emergency departments of other facilities. Three of the four occurred in February.
In all four cases, according to the report the patients required additional health care services and transfer to a higher level of care.
In a plan of correction hospital officials disputed the charge that the transfers amounted to serious events, but agreed to report them in the future under the provisions of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act.
Records of the patients transferred showed one was found unresponsive while another fell and suffered seizures.
The facility also was cited for failing to get a written physician's order for a patient placed in restraints and for failure to include patient grievances in the records of six patients who filed complaints.
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