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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:49 PM Oct 2014

“We are deeply sorry”: Top official at Presbyterian to offer mea culpa to Congress on Thursday

The chief clinical officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas will offer a mea culpa Thursday to a U.S. House committee over the initial misdiagnosis of the Ebola patient who died last week at the hospital.

A transcript of testimony by Dr. Daniel Varga was to be presented before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. It was posted online Wednesday. In it Varga apologized for not delivering the remarks in person.

“Unfortunately, in our initial treatment of Mr. Duncan, despite our best intentions and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes,” the statement reads. “We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola.

“We are deeply sorry.”

Read more: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/we-are-deeply-sorry-top-official-at-presbyterian-hospital-to-deliver-mea-culpa-before-congress.html/

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AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
1. Well, at least they finally got around to it.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:52 PM
Oct 2014

Meanwhile, we still have people blaming the CDC for it all......unbelievable.

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
2. Translation: CYA.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:53 PM
Oct 2014

I really hope they and other places use this as a learning episode and do better next time.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. Well that is a twist
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:59 PM
Oct 2014

Normally the entity doing the apologizing is covering for another entity. At least in politics.

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
4. Where's the $6 million man? The CEO of Texas Health Resources.
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 12:13 AM
Oct 2014

Douglas Hawthorne, the CEO of Texas Health Resources (the non-profit corporation that owns Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and several others) made over $5.7 million in total compensation in 2009 (latest numbers I can find).

The individual hospital's former President Mark Merrill made over $1.15 million back in 2009.

Can't get any numbers on the current hospital President's (Jim Berg) compensation, but one can only assume it runs along the same lines of over $1 million in total compensation.

I haven't head a peep from the President nor CEO of this hospital corporation.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
5. My wife says you just made my blood pressure spike a few more points and
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 12:16 AM
Oct 2014

thanks you for it . . . NOT!

None of those empty suits are responsible, don't you get it? It's all the nurses' fault.



On a serious note, I wish you could start a thread with these facts and figures. So maybe some of the more anti-worker cohort here can get some perspective.

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
6. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is a non-union corporation. No more and no less.
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 12:20 AM
Oct 2014

Cost savings and therefore profits go right to the executives and owners (I guess that would be the church).

It is a non-profit in name only...just like the National Football League.

Tweedy

(628 posts)
10. Blaming the folks doing the work
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 01:33 AM
Oct 2014

Agreed. Blaming the nurses who are trying to provide care under extremely difficult circumstances is ridiculous.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
12. blaming the nurses who were instructed to wrap their necks in medical tape
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 07:24 AM
Oct 2014

if they were so concerned about exposure is beyond ridiculous.

Criminal negligence.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
7. I hope they ask him
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 12:23 AM
Oct 2014

about the directive the hospitals received from the CDC back in August telling hospitals to prepare for Ebola.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
8. The best way to know if your hospitals PPE is adequate
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 12:29 AM
Oct 2014

See if your administrator/CEO/medical director will wear it and enter the room and shut the door for several hours.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
11. what about your failure to properly isolate him after he came back in the ambulance?
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 07:23 AM
Oct 2014

What about your failure to properly prepare the nurses caring for him? Lack of proper PPEs? Spotters to help them decontaminate and undress? No plan for hazardous waste?

Forced to wrap tape around their necks to protect them?!?! ARE YOU GODDAM FUCKING KIDDING ME?

He can take his apology and shove it.

bklyncowgirl

(7,960 posts)
13. These executives should be sentenced to cleaning bedpans in an Ebola ward in Liberia
Thu Oct 16, 2014, 07:39 AM
Oct 2014

Wearing the same inadequate gear they expected their nurses to wear, of course. Maybe some CDC officials can join them.

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