Rhode Island's largest hospital was fined $150,000 and ordered to take the step of installing video cameras in all its operating rooms after it had its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, state health officials said yesterday.
Rhode Island Hospital, the teaching hospital for Brown University's Alpert Medical School, was fined a second time for wrong-site surgeries, state health director David Gifford said. The hospital also was fined $50,000 after brain surgeons operated on the wrong part of the heads of three patients in 2007.
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