{"id":274800,"date":"2025-11-06T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274800\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:53:34","slug":"health-system-sincerely-regrets-telling-531-patients-theyre-dead-after-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274800\/","title":{"rendered":"Health system &#8216;sincerely regrets&#8217; telling 531 patients they&#8217;re dead after error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (WKRC) &#8211; A large health care system that operates in two states mistakenly sent condolence letters to 531 patients about their own deaths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/maine-health-system-accidentally-sends-letters-500-patients\/story?id=127128215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News<\/a> reported that MaineHealth said it \u201csincerely regrets\u201d the error. The letters included information on how the next of kin could resolve the patients\u2019 estates.<\/p>\n<p>A company spokesperson told ABC News that an error in the computer system caused the mistake, generating estate vendor letters that were mistakenly sent to living patients.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The patients were not listed as deceased in the company\u2019s medical records, and apology letters were sent to all those affected, according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNDATED (WKRC) &#8211; A large health care system that operates in two states mistakenly sent condolence letters to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-274800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}