Local V-A Hospital Probed Following Patient Deaths

Local V-A Hospital Probed Following Patient Deaths

A Fort Wayne medical provider is scolded about its patient care.

The V-A Medical Center on Lake Avenue is taken to task in a national report, following a probe into two deaths.

The hospital got bad marks for providing inadequate management, documentation and review of a patient's cardiopulmonary arrest, prior to that patient's death.

Staff was also critiqued for not properly monitoring another patient in an intensive care unit.

Policies, committee minutes and documentation were also reviewed, Stutzman says, leading to five corrective recommendations.