Two hospitals in North Carolina’s Research Triangle say they have corrected serious problems with patient care that kept a major source of their federal funding in limbo for months, The Raleigh News & Observer reports.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services threatened to cancel Medicare contracts for UNC Medical Center and Wilson Medical Center after regulators found they repeatedly failed to meet federal health care standards. Violations were so serious earlier this year that regulators declared that the hospitals put the health and safety of patients in “immediate jeopardy.” But after follow-up inspections in September, both hospitals fixed those issues, keeping their federal contracts intact, representatives say.
Wilson Medical Center and UNC Medical Center have been under scrutiny by state and federal regulators for months following complaints that led inspectors to examine several incidents at the facilities in the early months of 2022.
But troubles at Wilson’s only hospital, located less than an hour east of Raleigh and licensed for about 300 beds, may not be over yet. Read more.
