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Hospitals In Ventura County Fined For Botched Surgeries

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Thousand Oaks, CA-- Two hospitals in Ventura County have been ordered to pay $25,000 fines after surgical sponges were left in patients following surgical procedures.

A hospital in Thousand Oaks and in Santa Paula are both facing hefty fines for incidents that happened in 2008 and 2007.

In Santa Paula, a woman who underwent abdominal surgery was told only after x-rays revealed, there was a surgical sponge in her abdomen. The x-rays were taken five days after the surgery was performed.

The Thousand Oaks Surgical Hospital is facing a fine after a woman underwent surgery twice to remove a sponge left in her after a hysterectomy was performed last year.

Both hospitals have until Thursday, March 12th to appeal the fines.

KEY News Ventura County Bureau Chief Tracy Lehr has the story.

Story Created: Mar 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM PST

Story Updated: Mar 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM PST

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