ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — State health officials recommend Mission Hospital be placed on Immediate Jeopardy for incidents investigated in July, August and September, according to a letter obtained in an open records request to North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS).
The concerns center around patient rights and nursing services. The letter, addressed to Mission Memorial Hospital CEO Greg Lowe, claims hospital staff “failed to provide a safe environment for patients by failing to have systems in place and followed to promptly correct and mitigate risks related to patient misidentification, to follow established telemetry escalation pathways and ensure systems in place and functioning for continuous monitoring of a patient during transport.”
The letter goes on to claim nursing staff failed to “respond to and assess a telemetry patient with emergent needs, failed to ensure safe and appropriate transport and continuous pulse oximetry monitoring for a patient during transport, and failed to prevent and control infections by not accurately implementing and communicating infection prevention precautions.”…