California one of few states requiring timely reporting of medical errors
After errors causing the deaths of two patients, in 2007 California passed tough laws backed by substantial fines requiring hospitals to promptly report serious medical errors. California is one of only five states with laws requiring public reporting of errors including the health facilities responsible. -DB San Francisco Chronicle August 9, 2009 By Lance Williams In the summer of 2005, a 12-year-old girl with pneumonia died at the Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara when nurses accidentally