Roaches Found in Florida Hospital's Operating Room

 Roaches Found in Florida Hospital’s Operating Room

On December 7, 2021 a meeting of more than a dozen surgeons was held at the Hudson, Florida hospital, HCA Florida Bayonet Point due to safety concerns. Their concerns have been building up for months, and the doctors requested a meeting to address their complaints. Allegations involving unclean surgical equipment, insufficient ICU patient monitoring, a chaotic emergency room, and anesthesiology mistakes that led to patients waking up during surgery were all topics for debate. The hospital administrator promised to address these life threatening issues, but more than a year later, very little has changed. 

 

Bayonet Point Hospital
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 The largest hospital business in the United States, HCA Healthcare Inc., which owns Bayonet Point, runs 182 hospitals and 125 surgery centers across the country and in the United Kingdom. HCA is nonetheless very successful. It made $5.6 billion in revenue last year, and investors love to buy its shares. While it cuts costs and corners, HCA's unwavering concentration on profits could endanger its patients. Patient safety incidents that cause fatalities, severe temporary harm, or both have increased as a consequence. There were 18 "near misses" among people who were going under the knife in January 2022. Recent images of the facility supplied by the doctors show cockroaches in the operating room, wires hanging from a hole in the wall, bloody and backed-up sinks, ceiling leaks in the recovery room, and oxygen equipment held together with tape. The hospital spokeswoman claims: “Today, our hospital is in good standing with all regulatory and accrediting bodies, including AHCA.” Bayonet Point has been given a one-star overall rating out of five on the government's hospital comparison website by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees healthcare for more than 60 million Americans. 

At Bayonet Point Hospital in 2022, there was a roach in the operating room, leaks, and different medical apparatus held together with duct tape.
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