DENNIS QUAID ACCEPTS A SETTLEMENT FROM L.A. HOSPITAL
Celebrity Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, have accepted a $750,000 settlement from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Quaid's twin babies, Zoe and Thomas, were being treated at Cedars-Sinai in November 2007 for staph infections when an employee accidentally administered dosages of heparin, a blood thinner, that were 1,000 times the recommended amounts for newborns. Thankfully, both children fully recovered. The California Department of Public Health later fined Cedars-Sinai $25,000 for multiple failures to adhere to established policies and procedures for safe medication use.
The Quaids remain involved with a lawsuit against Baxter Healthcare Corporation, the manufacturer of heparin, alleging negligently labled medication bottles. The settlement with Cedars-Sinai has no effect on this pending lawsuit.
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