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Calif. hospital fined for deadly blood transfusion


A Southern California hospital has been fined $25,000 by the state after nurses failed to follow blood transfusion protocol and a patient died as a result.

A state Department of Public Health investigation found that in October 2008, a patient at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was given a blood transfusion that wasn't needed and was the wrong blood type.

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