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- Infections, Other Safety Issues Plague Hospitals, Maybe More So When Nursing Is Cut; Here's A Good Series On It
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents, including infections that patients acquired in hospitals, occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008. In all, the incidents -- which represented...
- Safety-net Hospitals Could Get Hit Hardest In Oct. When Patient Ratings Will Influence Medicare And Medicaid Payments
When hospitals start getting paid based on the perceived quality of care they provide to their Medicare and Medicaid patients, so-called "safety net" hospitals, a last resort for the poor, could be the losers in the equation. That's because a main...
- 100 Kentucky Hospitals Join Network To Improve Patient Safety, Fight Hospital-acquired Conditions Such As Infections
To help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions and hospital-acquired infections, 100 of Kentucky's 131 hospitals have joined the Kentucky Hospital Association's hospital engagement network. The group's goal is to help hospitals find ways...
- Hospital Employees Report Only 1 Of 7 Medical Errors, Study Finds
In keeping with other studies on the subject, a new report shows hospital employees only report and recognize one out of every seven medical errors, accidents or other events that harm Medicare patients. "Yet even after hospitals investigate preventable...
- Kentucky Needs System To Track Hospital Infections, Doctor Says
Kentucky is in need of a single, accurate system that tracks hospital-acquired infections in order to improve health care and receive state and federal funding, an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal contends. (Hospitals call these "healthcare-associated...
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Kentucky hospitals score mostly Bs and Cs on hospital safety scorecard; most in U.S. earned an A or B
In an analysis of the nation's hospitals and their safety records, many of Kentucky's health care facilities have some shortcomings. A study by the Leapfrog Group finds that the vast majority of the state's hospitals score a B or C in overall patient safety, a term defined here by analysis of data on accidents, errors and infections as kept by the Centers for Disease Control, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research. At least a dozen of the state's hospital earned an A rating. To check the grade of your own hospital, go here.
In this data analysis and grading system, 26 different points of criteria were used. Of the 2,618 hospitals reviewed, about 56 percent of the hospitals earned an A or B, and an additional 38 percent passed with a C grade. Only 6 percent of hospitals -- 146 total -- received a D or F. According to CBS News, at least 180,000 Americans die in hospitals every year from incidents that occur because of their stays there. (Read more)
In this data analysis and grading system, 26 different points of criteria were used. Of the 2,618 hospitals reviewed, about 56 percent of the hospitals earned an A or B, and an additional 38 percent passed with a C grade. Only 6 percent of hospitals -- 146 total -- received a D or F. According to CBS News, at least 180,000 Americans die in hospitals every year from incidents that occur because of their stays there. (Read more)
- Infections, Other Safety Issues Plague Hospitals, Maybe More So When Nursing Is Cut; Here's A Good Series On It
The Centers for Disease Control has reported that nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents, including infections that patients acquired in hospitals, occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, 2008. In all, the incidents -- which represented...
- Safety-net Hospitals Could Get Hit Hardest In Oct. When Patient Ratings Will Influence Medicare And Medicaid Payments
When hospitals start getting paid based on the perceived quality of care they provide to their Medicare and Medicaid patients, so-called "safety net" hospitals, a last resort for the poor, could be the losers in the equation. That's because a main...
- 100 Kentucky Hospitals Join Network To Improve Patient Safety, Fight Hospital-acquired Conditions Such As Infections
To help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions and hospital-acquired infections, 100 of Kentucky's 131 hospitals have joined the Kentucky Hospital Association's hospital engagement network. The group's goal is to help hospitals find ways...
- Hospital Employees Report Only 1 Of 7 Medical Errors, Study Finds
In keeping with other studies on the subject, a new report shows hospital employees only report and recognize one out of every seven medical errors, accidents or other events that harm Medicare patients. "Yet even after hospitals investigate preventable...
- Kentucky Needs System To Track Hospital Infections, Doctor Says
Kentucky is in need of a single, accurate system that tracks hospital-acquired infections in order to improve health care and receive state and federal funding, an op-ed piece in The Courier-Journal contends. (Hospitals call these "healthcare-associated...