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Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital

MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital, formerly, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital is a general hospital in Yakima, Washington with 238 licensed beds. It is a level III adult and pediatric trauma center, with a 34-bed emergency department and a 27-bed critical care unit.

Therac-25 Incidents
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital was the site of two clinical radiotherapy incidents, wherein hospital staff used a Therac-25 machine to treat cancer patients. Due to a coding error in the machine, the two patients involved received significant overdoses of radiation. == References ==
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