An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes, leading to brain damage after staff didn’t respond to an urgent request for heart monitoring.
Short-staffed night shift nurses falsely documented that a 14-year-old patient had taken psychiatric medications that she never received. A pair of twins with measles weren’t placed in isolation for more than two hours, potentially exposing scores of patients. A nurse in the behavioral health unit was nearly choked into unconsciousness by a patient.
These are just some of the deficiencies in patient care and safety chronicled by investigators from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services during their most recent inspection of HCA Healthcare-owned Mission…