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James Woods and Hospital Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit

December 3rd, 2009. By AbiK

After blogging about HAI’s (Healthcare Associated Infections) recently, and recalling some of the recent reports on MRSA, I was thinking about the James Woods trial–the one where his brother, Michael Woods, had gone to the emergency room at Kent Hospital in Rhode Island back in 2006 with a sore throat and vomiting; he wound up dying after a heart attack. The wrongful death lawsuit centered around James Woods’ charge that the hospital didn’t do enough to save his brother’s life.

Well, they’ve settled the lawsuit. Yes, the Woods family did get an “undisclosed” amount of money, but according to the Associated Press, they also got a belated apology from the hospital and an agreement from the hospital that a new institute, the Michael J. Woods Institute at Kent Hospital, will be created to to find ways to reduce human errors at hospitals.

According to AP, “The hospital agreed to invest $1.25 million over the next five years in the institute, which will look at how to reduce the risk of errors based on how humans actually do things, also known as human factors research. Its leadership will include a representative of Michael Woods’ family, as well as experts from inside and outside of the hospital.”

Tags: Hospital Error, James Woods, Wrongful Death
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