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Study clears GMH of 23 of 49 preventable deaths
The Guam Memorial Hospital has been cleared of at least twenty-three deaths that occurred at the facility. The Mountain Pacific Group based out of Hawaii has spent the last few months reviewing numerous death cases to determine if the deaths could have been prevented. Hospital administrator Peter John Camacho says forty-nine cases were submitted to the peer review organization. Of those, twenty-three were reviewed.
"Thus far the care that had been rendered and everything associated with the care of those patients has been deemed appropriate," Camacho explained. "We want to reassure the community that we do take care of people here and despite some of the limitations we face, they do good things here."
Camacho adds that in a two-year period there were 109 deaths that took place in the Hospital. Officials are working to forward the remaining cases to the Mountain Pacific Group in the next two weeks.
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