Alvarado Hospital near La Mesa was recently fined $50,000 by the California Department of Public Health for failure to follow proper procedure when a woman fell out of her bed and died, according to NBC San Diego.
The state agency reported that a nurse turned off a bed alarm for a high fall-risk patient who later fell out of bed, hit her head and suffered a bleed into her brain tissue stemming from the fall. The patient died the next day, the news station said.
Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego was also fined $100,000 for removing the wrong kidney from a man possibly suffering from cancer in one of his kidneys.
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