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Florida patients exposed to infection due to re-used supplies
A Florida hospital is being forced to test nearly 2,000 patients for blood-borne pathogens after being treated by a nurse who admitted re-using IV bags and tubing. The hospital, Broward General... Read more...
Obama doesn't favor mandatory medical mistake reporting
More or less in keeping with rules that already exist on the state level, President Obama favors a national reporting system for hospital-acquired infections, but doesn't want to see all medical... Read more...
Illinois hospital data finally goes online
At long last, Illinois will begin publishing hospital performance data on a state-run website. We say "at long last" because the laws requiring the reports were passed a whopping five years ago, in... Read more...
Study: Hospitals cutting back on infection-control education
Hospitals are understandably facing a lot of pressure to keep cutting down on facility-based infections. The problem is, they're also facing financial problems unlike any they've looked at in quite... Read more...
Dr. Doug Woolley: CMS needs to get tough on hospital acquired infections
Hospital acquired infections will continue to be a problem until CMS takes a tough stand that makes hospitals, physicians and surgeons financially responsible for all the costs that accrue from an... Read more...
SC group establishes quality trust
A group of healthcare organizations--including the South Carolina Hospital Association, Health Sciences South Carolina and Premier Healthcare Alliance--are coming together to study methods for... Read more...
PA study documents high cost of hospital infections
Everyone in the hospital industry knows that patients who contract an infection during their inpatient stay are much more costly to treat than those who don't. Now, there's another study out... Read more...
Study: Never events major factor in hospital liability costs
According to new research by insurance firm Aon Corp., hospital-acquired conditions accounted for 12.2 percent of total legal liability costs insured by healthcare facilities in 2007. While many... Read more...
HHS infection guidelines not enough, execs say
Recently, HHS announced a new infection control plan calling for more collaboration between... Read more...
Study: Physician leadership, improved practices needed to fight healthcare-associated infections
To cut down significantly on the rate of healthcare-associated infections, it will take not only improved infection prevention practices, but also more executive and physician leadership on the... Read more...
