S3E6 "Accredited for Safety? The Redwood City MRI Accident”

Podcast: Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations · CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

What does hospital accreditation tell us about MRI safety—and what happens when a serious accident exposes weaknesses that earlier surveys missed? In 2023, an ICU bed was pulled into an MRI scanner at Kaiser Permanente’s Redwood City Hospital, crushing a nurse. The hospital held Joint Commission accreditation. A subsequent federal investigation documented 13 pages of deficiencies. How did those safety problems go undetected? In Season 3, Episode 6 of Invisible Force, MRI safety experts John Posh and Tobias Gilk examine whether hospital accreditation can fill the oversight gap left by California’s asse...