Hospital faulted for removing wrong patient’s kidney
A surgeon at Saint Vincent Hospital unnecessarily removed a patient’s kidney because he relied on the test results of another patient with the same name, according to public health inspectors who found serious safety lapses at the hospital.
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to terminate Saint Vincent from the Medicare program on Dec. 12 if the Worcester hospital does not put in place improvements, according to a letter last month from the agency to hospital chief executive Steven MacLauchlan.
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