{"id":2925,"date":"2016-05-19T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:05:23","slug":"inspectors-find-calif-hospitals-pharmacy-posed-infection-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Inspectors Find Calif. Hospital\u2019s Pharmacy Posed Infection Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,300 patients at a San Diego-area hospital may have been exposed to infection from contaminated medications last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/paradise-valley-pharmacy1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">state records show.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problems were traced to the compounding pharmacy lab at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, California, where inspectors found \u201cdust, stains and foreign material\u201d in a supposedly sterile environment in which thousands of intravenous medications were prepared over eight months \u2014 from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/inspectors-find-calif-hospitals-pharmacy-posed-infection-risk\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=29743772&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_-b_dQMGyXdHY1JH7C1dSj4CtK8ZwfmQloERRIMHhuJRILObNXQJ3DVcIBO_VLww3uf51rCQhKQC-4738bKNLJWpR_QQ&amp;_hsmi=29743772\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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