CA hospital fined after wrong meds caused patient’s death

Washington Hospital in Fremont was fined $25,000 by the California Department of Public Health because a heart patient treated there last year was given the wrong drugs and died. The 87-year-old patient was mistakenly given another patient's methadone and desipramine--often used to treat drug addicts--along with two other incorrect medications. Washington Hospital was one of 11 in California cited and fined because of errors that caused death or injury to patients.