I-Team: Investigation Shows Hospital Did Nothing Wrong
LAS VEGAS -- A state investigation of Sunrise Hospital concludes the hospital did nothing wrong with respect to a series of unexplained medical events in its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
But its findings stop short of determining what, if any role, two nurses may have played in the incidents that cost one infant his life.
The investigation by the State Health Division found that catheter disruptions occurred in the NICU at Sunrise, and it determined the hospital followed regulations with respect to the prevention of, and the response to, those incidents.
So what does that mean for two nurses living under a cloud of suspicion? Not much. The division investigates facilities, not individuals.
Sunrise acknowledges 14 disrupted catheters in its NICU since February. "Disruptions" is not a medical term and so far, Sunrise has refused to define it specifically.