FL HCA Hosp. Cost Cuts, Patient Care- Roaches in Oper. Rm, Equip.Taped, Ceiling Leaks, 'Near Misses'

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7. These disclosures should prompt inspection by certifying agencies-- state and Fed Medicare...

...among others. A hospital not only needs to be licensed by the state but needs yearly certification renewals that they meet health department and, assuming they are billing the Feds for Medicare/Medicaid covered treatments, Federal hospital standards. Without those certification renewals they can lose Federal funding payments and possibly their license to operate. Having been in hospital administration and been through a bunch of inspections over 12 years, it is a very serious matter when these inspections have numerous and substantive findings. I could imagine that FL is not as rigorous about this as one might hope but the bodies that inspect for the Feds do not take prisoners.