Findings criticize hospital
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
By Staff
The state has cited a recent federal investigation involving the death of a 76-year-old man at a Franklin County hospital as one reason its request to move from the center of Franklin to its frontier with Wake County was denied, in a report released Monday.
The report from the state office that gives permission to hospitals in North Carolina to move or expand said the federal investigation was proof that Franklin Regional Medical Center had not provided a past record of quality care.
The state Certificate of Need section cited the March report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that centered on elective surgical procedures at the hospital. As a result of the report, CMS threatened to pull federal funding to treat poor and elderly patients at Franklin Regional.
The CMS report "provides a statement of deficiencies with identification of immediate jeopardy and failure to conform to Medicare Conditions of Participation," read the Certificate of Need reply to Franklin Regional. "Therefore, the applicants have not adequately demonstrated that quality care has been provided in the past." (more…)
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