Safe Patient Project: Kentucky

'Don't tell' culture a plague on health care

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:54:16 -0600

Op-ed by Dr. Kevin Kavanagh, chairman of Health Watch USA.

Outpatient Antibiotic Utilization Highest in West Virginia and Kentucky

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:23:57 -0600

That two small Appalachian states, with a struggling healthcare system, would be at the top of the list for outpatient antibiotic utilization is not unexpected. Read the explanation for these high rates.

Consumer voices to be heard at national hospital infection meeting

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:41 -0600

Meet the eleven consumer advocates who will be attending a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)hospital infection meeting this week.

Groups push for Congress to open hospital accreditation reports

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:23:59 -0600

A coalition of state and national patient safety activists, including Consumers Union, are pressing Congress to open reports by The Joint Commission, a non-profit group that performs most of the hospital accreditations performed nationwide. The federal government does not disclose the survey results now. Making the survey results public would give patients more information about hospitals' operations, including their efforts to prevent hospital-acquired infections, and foster greater transparency.

Investigate staffing, infection rates at UK hospital

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:50:47 -0600

Op-ed written by Dr. Kevin T. Kavanagh (chairman of Health Watch USA) regarding the quality of care at a Kentucky hospital.

Health Care Associated Infections and Impact on the Community

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:19:15 -0600

Dr Kevin Kavanagh, MD, MS, FACS Testifying Before the Joint Kentucky Senate and House Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education.

U.S. Attorney says nursing home's 'worthless' care led to deaths, injuries

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:26:29 -0600

The complaint alleges that from 2004 to 2008, numerous patients suffered serious injuries; five of those patients died. Some of the residents who died went days without baths; they weren't given enough to drink; and their pressure sores were not treated, leading to fatal infections, the complaint alleges.

Public, patients have right to know hospitals' infection rates

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:28:05 -0600

Op-ed by Daniel M. Saman and Kevin T. Kavanagh, MD. "Although we're a nation of statistics gatherers, there is one glaring omission in this endless list of measurements: how safe our health care facilities are."

Testimony on Healthcare Acquired Infections and Public Reporting

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:57:15 -0600

Presentation by Kevin Kavanagh, MD on Healthcare Acquired Infections and public reporting which was given to the Kentucky Joint Senate and House Committee on Veterans, Millitary Affairs and Public Protection.

Public Reporting of Hospital Infections in Kentucky

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:11:39 -0600

Dr Kevin Kavanagh, MD Testifying in Support of HB 291

Op-ed: UK wrong to downplay loss of nursing honor

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:01:29 -0600

Dr. Kevin Kavanagh writes an op-ed on nursing care and public reporting of hospital infections.

Drugs and Medical Device errors

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:51:26 -0600

Kentucky bill would require reporting of hospital-acquired infections

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:46:34 -0600

Kentucky hospitals would be required to report all infections patients acquire during hospital stays under a proposal pending before the state legislature.

Kentucky voices: State reporting on hospital infections lax, dangerous

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:37:05 -0600

Dr. Kevin Kavanagh: Public reporting is an essential component of controlling health care-acquired infections. Twenty-seven states, but not Kentucky, have laws requiring public reporting.

'You can’t kill my mother and get away with it'

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:53:41 -0600

Article by Marshall Allen after attending Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project 2010 summit.