Crisis remains at Dallas-based Parkland Memorial Hospital, which is still suffering from oversight issues following multiple reported patient safety breaches in June, The Dallas Morning News reported. Public safety monitors said Parkland is completing 80 percent of required tasks in a corrective action plan but notes there still are adverse patient safety issues, such as the surgical-site infection rate more than doubling and hand-washing noncompliance jumping by nearly 1,000 violations in July, up 32 percent from June. After a major safety patient overhaul in which the public hospital cleaned house, nearly one in six jobs is vacant, the newspaper noted.
"You all have uncovered some pretty ugly truths about Parkland," hospital board chairwoman Debbie Branson told The Dallas Morning News. She added, it's "making some pretty revolutionary changes." Article