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.
State Disclosure Reports
Alabama
California
- Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in California Hospitals, 2011
- California Hospital Infection Reports
Colorado
- CO Health Facility-Acquired Infections Report 2011
- CO: Health Facility-Aquired Infections Report 2010
- CO: Status Report on the Health Facility Acquired Infections 2009
- CO: Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Acquired Infections (5/09)
- CO Health Facility Acquired Infections Reporting Initiative
Connecticut
- CT Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Source: State of Connecticut (Monday September 17, 2012)
- Connecticut Adverse Event Report (2011)
- 2011 Connecticut Health Care Associated Infections (HAIs) Hospital-specific Report
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
- Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) in Massachusetts Acute Care July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011 (16MB) pdf
- Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) in Massachusetts Acute Care Hospitals
Minnesota
Missouri
New Hampshire
- NH Healthcare-Associated Infections 2011 Source: NH Department of Health and Human Services (Friday March 1, 2013)
- NH Healthcare-Associated Infections 2009 Report
New Jersey
- NJ 2011 Hospital Performance Report
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Inspection Reports
- Full Versions of All Hospital Quality Reports
- NJ 2010 Hospital Performance Report
- NJ: Find and compare hospital quality care
- New Jersey health care associated central line bloodstream infections 2009
New York
- Hospital-Acquired Infections, NY State, 2011 Source: New York State Department of Health (Saturday September 1, 2012)
- NY: Hospital-acquired infections in New York state 2010
- NY: Hospital-acquired infections in New York state 2009
- NY: Hospital-acquired infections in New York state 2008
- New York: Healthcare Associated Infections (7/08)
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
- Oregon Healthcare Acquired Infections Reports Source: Oregon Health Authority (Thursday June 14, 2012)
- Hospital infection report for 2009 (11/10)
Pennsylvania
- PA: 2010 Health care associated infections in hospitals
- Cardiac Surgery in Pennsylvania 2008-2009
- Pennsylvania 2009 Report: Healthcare-Associated Infections
- PA 2008 Report: Healthcare-associated Infections
- Pennsylvania Hospital-acquired Infections-aggregate
- Pennsylvania Hospital-acquired Infections (2006)
- PA Hospital Performance Report 2008
- PA: Hospital Performance Reports 1987-2008
- Pennsylvania: Hospital acquired infections in 2006 (4/08)
- Pennsylvania: Hospital infections (7/05)
- Pennsylvania: Who pays (11/05)
- Pennsylvania Cost to Insurers of Hospital-acquired Infections (2006)
- Pennsylvania: MRSA (8/06)
- Pennsylvania: Hospital-specific rates in 2005 (11/06)
- Pennsylvania: C-difficile (5/07)
- PA: Hospital-specific patient infection rates (2005)
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
- Washington Hospital Association Hospital Infection report
- Washington Healthcare-Associated Infection Program
Antibiotic Resistance
Extending the Cure tracks changes in antibiotic resistance levels across regions of the United States, covering common bacteria-drug combinations. The ResistanceMap tells a story of growing resistance to commonly used antibiotics and identifies regional differences in resistance levels.
To Delay is Deadly
98,000 people die each year needlessly because of preventable medical harm. Efforts to reduce this are few and fragmented. With little transparency and no public reporting (except where hard fought state laws now require it), scarce data does not paint a picture of real progress.
In this report (PDF) we give the country a failing grade on progress on select recommendations we believe necessary to create a health-care system free of preventable medical harm.