Safe Patient Project

California

Blog Posts

• Millions of Californians will soon enjoy lower drug prices
  Posted 09/13/06 at 8:32 am

  On August 31st the California legislature passed a bill that would require drug companies to lower their prices, or risk being shut out of the state’s Medicaid program, or Medi-Cal. Governor Schwarzenegger is expected to sign the measure. Many thanks goes to our CA activists who helped us achieve this victory!

News Articles

• New Hospital Infection Reporting Rules
  Source: KQED Radio (Thursday June 23, 2011)

  A San Francisco judge has ruled that California hospitals must expand their reporting of surgical infection rates to state regulators. The California Hospital Association tried to block the new reporting rules, which would require hospitals to track infection rates related to more than two dozen kinds of surgeries.

• Judge upholds rules on hospital infection reports
  Source: San Francisco Chronicle (Thursday June 23, 2011)

  California hospitals lost their bid to avoid reporting their infection rates to the public. A California judge upheld a 2008 state law – one of the strongest in the nation – that calls on hospitals to report infections occurring from a broad array of surgeries.

• Patients Demand Honesty about Staph Infections

  Radio coverage of the San Francisco rally to protest lawsuit against California’s hospital infection reporting law. Features CA-based activists Ty Moss of Nile’s Project and Tina Manasian.

• Rally on giving consumers info about Hospital-Acquired Infections

  Join Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project and CA hospital infection activists for a patient safety rally outside the San Francisco Superior Court next Wednesday, June 22 from 8:30-9:30am (400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102). The rally is meant to show visibility of hospital infection survivors and family members before the 9:30am court hearing concerning a CA lawsuit to block surgical infection reporting requirements.

• State, hospitals spar in court over public reports on surgery infections
  Source: California Watch (Thursday June 16, 2011)

  The state attorney general’s office filed legal documents this week arguing that hospitals are required to file monthly reports on infections related to 29 types of surgeries, defending a legal challenge from the California Hospital Association.

• APIC, SHEA Seek to Block Infection Disclosure Rules in CA
  Source: HealthLeaders Media (Wednesday June 8, 2011)

  Hospital infection public disclosure fight in California.

• Nadya Suleman's doctor loses California medical license
  Source: CNN (Wednesday June 1, 2011)

  The California fertility doctor who implanted a dozen embryos in Nadya Suleman, resulting in the birth of eight babies, will lose his medical license on July 1, state officials said.

• Editorial: Hospital infections too deadly to ignore
  Source: Sacramento Bee (Wednesday June 1, 2011)

  Delaying progress on hospital infections in California is unacceptable.

• 44 states try new protocol, but not California
  Source: Sacramento Bee (Tuesday May 31, 2011)

  A hospital infection prevention program showing great results gets no welcome in California. According to the Sacramento Bee, leaders of the state’s hospital industry turned down an invitation to join the program two years ago, along with as much as $70,000 in federal funding.

• UCD Med Center fights infections; VA facility finds success
  Source: Sacramento Bee (Monday May 30, 2011)

  An estimated 12,000 Californians die annually from preventable hospital infections, according to state Department of Public Health statistics. Read about what some California hospitals are doing to address the problem.