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Hospital Fined for Nearly Killing Dennis Quaid’s Twins
Friday March 21, 2008

Dennis Quaid and Kimberly Buffington
Dennis Quaid and Kimberly Buffington attend the "Smart People" Premiere Party at the Revaleskin Rejuvenation Lounge on January 20, 2008 in Park City, Utah.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has been fined $25,000 for giving Dennis Quaid’s twins an accidental overdose of blood thinner last year.

The hospital plans to cooperate with the investigation and pay the fine, the Associated Press reports.

In all, 11 hospitals were fined for violations that caused or were "likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients," according to the AP.

“[Mix-ups] happen in every hospital in every state in this country,” the actor, 53, recently told 60 Minutes. “I've come to find out, there's 100,000 people a year killed … in hospitals by a medical mistakes.

"It's bigger than AIDS,” he adds. “It's bigger than breast cancer. It's bigger than automobile accidents and yet, no one seems to be really aware of the problem.”

Quaid said his babies — whom he and wife Kimberly Buffington welcomed through a surrogate — “were bleeding from everyplace that they [were] punctured” after being given 1,000 times the intended dose of Heparin, the blood thinner. (A pharmacy technician had stored a higher dose and a nurse did not read the label closely enough.)

Quaid — who is also suing the drug manufacturer — recently told Usmagazine.com his kids are doing "great".

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