Provident Hospital Cited for Significant Health Code Violations
The Illinois Department of Public Health filed multiple reports citing significant health code violations putting patients "at risk for serious harm or death." The conditions are so bad that the state has twice declared the hospital being in "immediate jeopardy" which is the states' code for the most serious violations. The list of citations include:
*patients left unattended who died, including a 2-day-old baby;
*biohazardous waste containers left open and unsealed;
*an employee who supervisors knew tested positive for tuberculosis continued to work around patients for four months.
Keep in mind that at the same time this is going on, the Governor is poised to sign a medical malpractice bill that limits the amount of a victims recovery. If the proponents of this bill put as much effort in hospital safety as they did in lobbying for the malpractice bill, conditions like those at Provident may not happen.
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