July 22, 2013 For Immediate Release
Posted on Jul 22, 2013
By St. Luke's, Duluth MN
The Sunday, July 22, edition of the
Duluth News Tribune published a statement of correction related to past stories. This correction
is related to our lawsuit. St. Luke's and The
Duluth News Tribune have reached a confidential settlement related to the lawsuit.
A full text of the correction is below.
CORRECTION
The
Duluth News Tribune, July 22
Last summer, the News Tribune published articles that included inaccurate
statements about St. Luke’s and its administration.
The News Tribune acknowledges that St. Luke’s is an accredited hospital
and has always had a rigorous Quality of Care program and that state and
federal law dictate the process that any accredited hospital must follow
in responding to complaints about physicians. That process is called peer
review. It requires that concerns about the quality of care provided by
a doctor are reviewed by other doctors, his or her peers. Although St.
Luke’s is prohibited by law from discussing peer review, prior to
publication the News Tribune had been told by other sources that the Medical
Executive Committee was responsible for acting on quality of care complaints,
that concerns about Dr. Konasiewicz had been brought to that committee
and that the committee took action which in some respects was more extensive
than the monitoring requirements which were later ordered by the Minnesota
Board of Medical Practice.
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