By Walter F. Roche Jr.
For a little over a month the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia doubled up the patients in the facilities neonatal intensive care unit in violation of state regulations.
State Health Department inspectors found that the doubling up began Sept. 2 and continued until Oct. 2 as workers at the facility were working on upgraded to the neonatal facilities..
In the report dated Oct. 2 the state surveyors cited a state regulation barring health facilities from admitting patients for which there was insufficient space.
"The number of patients admitted to any area of the hospital shall not exceed the number which the area is designed, equipped and staffed," the report states.
The hospital did not respond to questions about the report but in a plan of correction filed in response to the state report they reported that the remediation project had been completed and had passed a state inspection.
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