N.Y. Hospital Faces More Penalties
NEW YORK — The state added $66,000 to fines against Mount Sinai Hospital and prolonged the suspension of its live-donor liver transplant program after finding 33 patient-care violations, officials said Friday.
New York state Health Commissioner Antonia Novello cited the “severity and widespread impact” of the violations in lengthening the suspension.
The hospital’s adult liver transplant program was suspended following the January death of a 57-year-old donor a few days after surgery. The suspension was to expire Sept. 12, but with the new violations, the hospital must submit a correction plan and pass a new inspection. State officials said they didn’t know how long that would take.
The inquiry, the department’s longest investigation of a hospital, was continuing. The hospital said in a statement that most of the problems identified by the state occurred before 2002 and have been corrected.
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