The Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals for Medicare and health plan reimbursement, declined to weigh in. Surely national hospital advocacy organizations would come to Sharp’s defense.
Healthcare worker addiction is an insidious and growing national nightmare, sometimes resulting in patients being infected with lethal viruses that may take years to show symptoms. Not exactly prime time material or fodder for YouTube.īut this was about nabbing drug diverters, a clear threat to patient safety. He said they show women in lithotomy or “legs spread apart position, while staff place prep sponges, catheters and instruments inside their genitalia.” Hospital documents say some of those clips show women “in their most vulnerable state.” Sullivan was less euphemistic.
“One can only imagine what might be on those video clips,” Sullivan wrote. Patrick Sullivan, said in his screed - in so many words - that Sharp’s operation was outrageously, morally and ethically bereft.įar from being praised for its courage, the 528-bed hospital and the Sharp name are facing a public relations disaster. Now, the hospital’s accidental release of some of those video clips may constitute an embarrassing privacy breach, currently under investigation.Īs reported here May 5, Sharp Grossmont Hospital’s goal was to catch whoever was taking sedatives from anesthesia carts and work to curtail their license. Motion-activated, they captured 14,000 or so scenes showing hundreds of women undergoing obstetric and gynecologic surgeries. In his “Open Letter to the Public,” he blasted the hospital where he once worked for aiming secret video cameras on doctors and staff as well as their patients for nearly a year. Our newest feature, In Perspective, gives reporters a chance to further explain news developments so readers can make connections. A very angry San Diego doctor went rogue last month.
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