Safe Patient Project: New Hampshire

Patient Safety Advocates Start New England Watchdog Group

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:10:42 -0600

New England patient safety activists form New England Voices For Error Reduction (NEVER), a group that aims to work regionally for safe health care.

Tracking infections helps save lives

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:19:59 -0600

Op-ed written by Lori Nerbonne of New Hampshire Patient Voices. New Hampshire House Bill 602 would require ambulatory surgical centers to pay a fee to help finance the NH hospital infection reporting program, just like hospitals do. But recent amendments put the state reporting program in danger.

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.

Patient advocacy group aims to educate

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:39:55 -0600

Lori Nerbonne and Kelly Grasso started advocating for reporting of hospital aquired infections and medical errors after their mother ultimately died of a series of medical errors, including hospital infections. They have since started a non-profit advocacy group called New Hampshire Patient Voices.

New site lets employers put health care out to bid

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:18:39 -0600

Lori Nerbonne of NH Patient Voices: Patients need detailed data on quality and outcomes as well as cost to make informed health care decisions.

Letter to FDA from consumer groups with recommendations for medical device

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:26:38 -0600

Consumer Groups preliminary MDUFA suggestions to improve the agency's performance in terms of ensuring that consumers have access to safe and effective medical devices, and to guarantee the scientific integrity of the safety review process.

Do expensive buildings improve health care?

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:57:54 -0600

Patient safety advocate Lori Nerbonne argues that the $1billion spent on new hospital buildings in New Hampshire since 2000 has not resulted in better quality care.

Drugs and Medical Device errors

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

Midwife gives up license

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:50:54 -0600

A NH midwife is giving up her license because of allegations/complaints by hospitals to state council; patients sue.

'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.

NH patient advocacy group becoming a nonprofit

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:48:16 -0600

Patient safety advocate Lori Nerbonne and her sister Kelly Grasso have been working to make hospitals safer in New Hampshire and have now officially become and non-profit and launched a website: http://www.nhpatientvoices.org.

NH: State releases first hospital infection report

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:51:04 -0600

The long overdue report is in response to a 2006 state law requiring reporting of central line bloodstream infections. and infections acquired after heart, colon and knee surgeries. A separate report details influenza vaccination rates among hospital staff.

Initial N.H. report finds fewer cases of hospital infections

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:20:15 -0600

New Hampshire released the first report on health care associated infections. The law was passed in 2006 and results have finally been published.

NH Healthcare-Associated Infections 2009 Report

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:18:41 -0600

Why Not The Best? Comparative Reports on Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:48:34 -0600

Users of WhyNotTheBest.org can now search for and compare data for nearly 1,000 hospitals on the incidence of central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs)—one of the most lethal hospital-acquired complications. The data show wide variation in CLABSI incidence, in spite of strong evidence on how to prevent them. The updated data is made possible through a partnership among The Commonwealth Fund, The Leapfrog Group, and Consumers Union.