Hospital medication errors left SoCal patients at risk. One suffered a brain bleed
State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including an elderly patient who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.
At Adventist Health Simi Valley, medical staff erroneously gave an 81-year-old patient two doses of the blood thinner Lovenox within two hours, which "probably caused" a brain bleed that preceded the patient's death in March, investigators with the California Department of Public Health found.
State investigators determined that the
