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When a surgeon at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, NY, performed a procedure on the wrong side of a patient's back in 2008, the sentinel event stunned the hospital's administration. But it wasn't long before hospital leaders were formulating a plan to make sure it never happened again.

Hospital revamps safety after wrong-site surgery