A total of six Planned Parenthood facilities in Connecticut have failed at least one health inspection—that we know of. As always, there may be more.
This is a summary of health code violations in New Haven. They include improperly sterilized instruments, expired medications being used on patients, and, shockingly, an autoclave that hadn’t been cleaned in three months.
Here is a list of problems at the New Haven facility:
Clinic Conditions
The autoclave is used to sterilize instruments. It is vital to prevent infections. Inspectors discovered that it hadn’t been cleaned for three months. The clinic manager was “not sure” why it hadn’t been cleaned.
According to the inspection, “the facility failed to ensure that infection control practices were maintained.” The sterilization logs didn’t document the results of the steam indicator placed in each load of sterilized instruments.
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Medications were stored in a refrigerator with cans of ginger ale for the staff.
Chairs in the recovery room were cloth-covered, meaning they couldn’t be properly sterilized or cleaned.
Prefilled syringes weren’t labeled with the dates and times filled, the initials of the staff member who filled them, or the doses.
Staff
The staff didn’t properly clean instruments. Staff failed to mix the solution for cleaning instruments properly. Staff didn’t measure the amount of detergent to mix with water but estimated instead. They didn’t follow the manufacturer’s instructions to ensure a strong enough solution to properly clean the instruments.
Medical Records and Labels
The times at which medications were given and the staff giving them weren’t recorded.
In a subsequent inspection, records were also incorrect.
Incidents
Before one woman’s procedure, a nurse noted no drug allergies. However, her later records showed that she was allergic to Keflex. Fortunately, the woman didn’t suffer complications from a drug reaction, but the inconsistency in charts could’ve presented a risk.
Treatment of Patients
Single-use intravenous fluids were used on multiple patients.
Opened medications weren’t properly labeled and didn’t have expiration dates, leading to the use of expired medications on patients.
See inspection reports below:
Future articles will document the violations at the other Planned Parenthood locations in Connecticut.
Please visit the Problems at Planned Parenthood website for more information about Planned Parenthood.
LifeNews Note: Sarah Terzo covered the abortion issue for over 13 years as a professional journalist. In this capacity, she has written nearly a thousand articles about abortion and read over 850 books on the topic. She has been researching and writing about abortion since attending The College of New Jersey (class of 1997) where she minored in Women’s Studies. This article originally appeared on Sarah Terzo’s Substack. You can read more of her articles here.
