Daily Orange

A cardiac care nurse at UC Irvine who raised questions about faulty narcotics pumps, proper nurse rotations and mandatory breaks was notified by management that she could expect to fired in early July, according to the California Nurses Association.
via OC Weekly

UC Irvine Medical Center was fined $50,000 for two incidents.
In one case, a UCI patient reported that she had been “inappropriately touched ‘vaginally’ ” by a male nursing assistant last September.
In the second UCI case, a patient fell when reaching for the sink on the way to a bathroom last June. The fall caused bleeding [...]

Artist Hillary Miller writes:
Recently it was “Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week” at UCI Medical Center in Orange. I was asked to create a silk banner that people could help paint over three afternoons. The idea was to draw people in with something creative and fun while they learned about facts and resources for young people [...]

Xavier O’Ryan, a third-year Chapman University graduate student working on his Master of Fine Arts in film and television producing, died at UCI Medical Center.
via Panther Online

UC Irvine Medical Center is no longer under threat of losing federal funding after anesthesiologists were caught last year filling out records before surgeries took place, according to official correspondence made public Tuesday.
via OCR