Once actor Dennis Quaid's twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace recovered from an accidental overdose of the blood thinner Heparin, Quaid and his third wife Kimberly Buffington ultimately sued Baxter Healthcare Corp., the maker of the medication, in which they accused the company of failing to recall the drug after other infants died due to poorly labeled vials that spawned said medical mix-ups. Quaid and Buffington also settled with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for $750,000 after this mistake nearly killed their newborns.
However, after the hospital was also fined $25,000 by the California Department of Public Health, Quaid told Theo Von and Matthew Cole Weiss' podcast Allegedly (per People) that, in addition to an apology to all the families impacted, Cedars-Sinai vastly improved its protocol to ensure such deadly scares never happen again. "The hospital really stepped up and instituted a lot of patient safety that was very cutting edge and led the way with that," Quaid said. "So a lot of good things came out of it, and I think a lot of lives got saved because of that the drug companies, or the hospitals, actually put my face on the bottle to remind people for a time!"
Quaid explained that, while this "was the most frightening time of [their] lives," they felt the strong need to "step up for it" to guarantee that no other children or parents would ever have to endure what his own kids went through.
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