The Safe Patient Project is a Consumers Union campaign focused on eliminating medical harm, improving FDA oversight of prescription drugs and promoting disclosure laws that give information to consumers about health care safety and quality.
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Missouri Senate Committee Passes Bill to Toughen Reporting on Hospital Infections
In part, the bill would require a quicker turn-around by Department of Health releasing infection data reported by hospitals.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: public reporting
CRE: Mandatory reporting of ‘superbug’ sought
A state legislator from Louisville and the leader of a national watchdog group (Dr. Kevin Kavanagh of Health Watch USA) are calling for a new rule that hospitals report all CRE “superbug” cases to the state — a measure they say would better control the potentially deadly bacteria.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: carbapenem-resistant bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, CRE, public reporting
WA Bills Remove Critical Hospital Infection Reports from the Public View
Consumers Union statement on the regressive bills.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: hospital infection legislation, public reporting
Medicare Lists Hospital Quality Bonuses
“The revised payments, which will begin in January, mark the federal government’s most extensive effort yet to hold hospitals financially accountable for what happens to patients.”
Categories: Doctor Accountability, Hospital Acquired Infections, Medical Errors
Tags: Medicare, public reporting
TN Report on Healthcare-Associated Infections
January 1, 2008 — June 30, 2011
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: external, hospital-acquired infection, public reporting, state disclosure report
Consumer voices to be heard at national hospital infection meeting
Meet the eleven consumer advocates who will be attending a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)hospital infection meeting this week.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: CDC, HHS, ICU, medicare part d, patient safety activists, Patient Safety Day, public reporting
Consumers win on reporting surgical infection rates in CA
Last week, 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.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: CDC, public reporting, surgical site infection
A Shot In The Dark: Not Enough California Healthcare Workers are Getting Flu Shots
It’s the start of flu season and you might be worried about the spread of germs. We’re worried too. Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project released a report today that found nearly half of all hospital workers in California didn’t get flu shots during the 2008-2009 flu season.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: medicare part d, public reporting
MRSA Study Indicates Good News But Far Too Many Patients Suffering
Last week’s good news of a decline in serious MRSA health care-acquired infections, is a victory for patient safety, but we still have a long way to go to eliminate this very preventable crisis.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: CDC, ICU, medicare part d, public reporting, surgical site infection, VA, veterans, VRE
Victory for patients! Public reporting of certain infections will go nationwide
Soon it will be easier for you to find out how well your hospital prevents certain infections. As part of the new health care reform law, the Department of Health and Human Services will require hospitals to publicly disclose several types of dangerous hospital infections.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, HHS, ICU, medicare part d, public reporting, surgical site infection
