South Dakota hospital to lose Medicare funding over safety issues

Issues include broken sterilizing equipment and reports of a woman giving birth to a premature baby on a bathroom floor


The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will terminate Rosebud (S.D.) Indian Health Service Hospital's Medicare contract on March 16 because of safety issues, according to an article on the Becker's Hospital Review website.

Issues found last year included broken sterilizing equipment and reports of a woman giving birth to a premature baby on a bathroom floor. 

The hospital closed its emergency room and submitted an action plan to address the deficiencies. In February, CMS identified new violations.

A spokeswoman for the IHS said that the agency will ask CMS to enter into an agreement that would allow the hospital to restore all services by meeting safety and quality requirements.

Read the article.

 

 



March 14, 2016


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