Operating room mistakes costs hospital

(CNN) - A Rhode Island hospital is in hot water after performing a wrong site surgery on a patient's hand last month.  Now, the state health department is telling them to pay up.

Rhode island hospital has been ordered to pay $150,000 dollars after it's fifth wrong site surgery since 2007. The latest incident last month involved a patient who was to have surgery on two fingers.

Instead the surgeon performed both operations on the same finger. The department of health says the surgical team violated protocol by marking the wrist of the patient rather than the fingers themselves and did not take what's called a time out after realizing the mistake and performing surgery on the correct finger.

In addition to the fine, the hospital is being required to install audio and video recording equipment in all of their operating rooms, and have an employee who is not part of the operating team monitor all surgeries.

Alex DiPrato has more on this disturbing discovery in this internet health video report.