Rhode Island puts interventional radiology unit on probation

Jul 20, 2009

The interventional radiology department at a Rhode Island hospital has been put on probation by state health authorities after two wrong-site interventional procedures and a state inspection that found signs of what regulators called "pervasive problems" in the unit.

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