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Ironically, the fifth wrong-site surgery occurred at Rhode Island Hospital as it continues working with The Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare on improving surgical protocols. The hospital volunteered for the project to improve the safeguards to prevent patients from undergoing wrong-site, wrong-side, and wrong-patient surgical procedures.

Hospital already was trying to prevent errors