Cedar-Sinai Responsible for baby overdose!

California authorities concluded that Cedar-Sinai put Dennis Quaid's twins in jeopardy.

The Los Angeles hospital put three children, the newborn twins of Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly and another baby, in jeopardy by giving them an overdose of heparin, a blood thinner, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The report says the three children were given 1,000 times the intended dosage of heparin on Nov. 18, 2007. The Quaid babies were born on Nov. 8 via a surrogate mother and checked into Cedars-Sinai for an infection.

The Los Angeles hospital now has 10 days to respond to the report, which states that the hospital's unsafe medication practices "created a risk of harm for all hospital patients."

The investigation found that nurses and pharmacy technicians did not check labels on the vials of heparin before using them and did not keep adequate records of when the medication was used. The hospital was found to not have adequately educated its staff about the safe use of heparin.

The Quaid couple has already sued Baxter Healthcare Corp., the Illinois-based makers of heparin, accusing the firm of negligence in using very similar packages for different doses of the drug, thus creating a dangerous situation.

According to the Associated Press, in February Baxter Healthcare Corp. sent a letter warning health care workers to carefully read labels on the heparin packages to avoid confusion.

The couple's lawyer said in early December that the twins had fully recovered and that it was unlikely for them to suffer long-term effects from the overdose.