Several California hospitals were fined as around 20% of those inspected still had heparin and some still administering to patients, but the article doesn’t state when the inspections were conducted, but the recall was last winter after the incident at Cedar Sinai. BD
LOS ANGELES—Nearly 100 pharmacists and the hospitals they work for face fines for failing to remove a blood thinner from their shelves after a federal recall last winter, a state agency said Thursday.
The recalled drug heparin was found 94 times in inspections of all 533 hospitals in California, and at least 16 hospitals administered the drug to patients, according to the state Board of Pharmacy. Fines range from $2,500 to $5,000.
Regulators have not released the full list of hospitals involved. However, documents obtained by the Daily Journal show newborns were allegedly given heparin at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Central California in Madera. Both hospitals are appealing the charges.
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