Understaffing: Insufficient numbers of nurses or support staff leading to patient neglect, medication errors, and failure to monitor patients properly.
Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs): Patients developing serious infections like sepsis or MRSA due to unsanitary conditions, unsterilized equipment, or poor hygiene protocols.
Hiring and Retention Failures: Employing doctors, nurses, or technicians without proper credentials, training, or with a known history of incompetence or misconduct.
Communication Breakdowns: Systemic failures in communication between doctors, nurses, and different hospital departments, leading to critical errors in patient care.
Medication Errors: Mistakes caused by flawed pharmacy procedures, look-alike drug packaging stored together, or faulty electronic health record (EHR) systems.
Patient Fall Incidents: Failure to implement proper fall-risk protocols for elderly, medicated, or vulnerable patients.
Emergency Room Errors: Negligence caused by overcrowding, triage mistakes, or failure to get a specialist consult in a timely manner.
Faulty or Poorly Maintained Equipment: Injuries caused by malfunctioning beds, IV pumps, monitoring devices, or other hospital equipment.