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| + | == New measures at S.F. General after patient death == | ||
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| + | <html>put new security measures in place Friday in response to the death of a patient whose body was found in a rarely used stairwell beyond an alarm-equipped door 17 days after she went missing during treatment. | ||
| + | Hospital officials have not said whether an alarm triggered when , 57, entered the stairwell after she vanished Sept. 21 from her bed on the fifth floor. But it wasn't until Tuesday that she was found during a routine quarterly check of the stairwell, which was used as a fire escape,[http://tyreprobe.com/images/Custom-Denver-Broncos-Jerseys-For-Sale.html <strong>Denver Broncos Jerseys Wholesale</strong>], officials said. She was found on the fourth floor. | ||
| + | From now on, said Dr. , the hospital's chief medical officer, staffers and sheriff's deputies who police the hospital must manually deactivate all alarms and check fire escapes when they sound, on top of conducting daily sweeps of all the building's stairwells. | ||
| + | "There are several investigations that need to be completed, but in the meantime, we are taking steps to improve things that can readily be improved - working with alarms on doors, monitoring our stairwells and putting extra procedures in place," said May in an interview at the hospital. | ||
| + | "With our existing staff and the resources we have," he said, "we're doing the things that can minimize security and patient safety risks." | ||
| + | May said the staff met Friday to discuss proactive steps they could take as they waited for various agencies to finish investigations into the death of Spalding, who was being treated for an infection and staying in a medical-surgical unit that had staffed one nurse for every four to five patients the day she disappeared. | ||
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| + | Also Friday, the mayor's office announced that officials from will be conducting an independent review of the hospital's procedures and systems for patient safety and security. UCSF now partners with San Francisco General on clinical teaching and research, but not on safety or security systems. | ||
| + | Spalding's friends and family expressed concern that she may have been disoriented, perhaps due to medication, on the day she vanished from her room, leaving her cell phone behind. Her disappearance led friends to post flyers around the city and ask for tips online. | ||
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| + | He declined to discuss security camera systems in place at the hospital and if they could have helped shed light on Spalding's disappearance. | ||
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| + | "There is literature about this phenomenon," May said. "We have alarm overload in medicine. We have alarms of various types that are intended to be safety measures, but it can be a cacophony of chirps and beeps and you can become desensitized to that. That is a recognized issue in health care and we are working to contend with that." | ||
| + | May said he welcomed the mayor's independent study because it will help him and the rest of the staff improve operations. | ||
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| + | Vivian Ho is a staff writer. E-mail: vho@sfchronicle.com Twitter:</html> | ||
