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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
Patient safety activists hold “conversation” with CDC
On June 16, Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project and 11 patient safety advocates from 10 states attended the first “Consumer Conversation on Healthcare-Associated Infections” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, CDC, patient safety activists, Patient Safety Day, public reporting, surgical site infection
New CDC report on CLABSIs: One step forward, many more to go
This week the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a state-specific report (not hospital specific) on rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in the ICU as collected by its National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), a monitoring system that looks at hospital infections across the nation.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: CDC, CLABSI, ICU, public reporting, surgical site infection
Jon Stewart: What If We Classified Hospital Infections as Terrorists?
Surgeon and author Atul Gawande, M.D., discusses the surgical checklist on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: CDC, public reporting, surgical error, surgical site infection, video
CDC Endorses Public Reporting of Hospital Infections
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a very clear statement today on public reporting of infection rates, prompted by the Consumer Reports article “Deadly Infections” – a real step forward!
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: CDC, medicare part d, Patient Safety Day, public reporting
Hospitals, get with the program
Hospital-acquired infections rarely make national headlines, but today, “Deadly infections” hits magazine racks across America in the March 2010 issue of Consumer Reports, published by Consumers Union.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: ICU, medicare part d, Patient Safety Day, public reporting
