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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by JustJess
The HealthcareChoices site has a lot of info on practices at hospitals, and US News & World Report ranks all the hospitals in the country in terms of infection rates, morbidity/mortality rates every year. Certainly, you'll want to check to make sure any hospital you go to is JCAHO-accredited. It's a regulatory agency that ensures compliance with certain Federal regulations as well as making sure you're in compliance with your own policies. They have National Patient Safety Goals that all accredited hospitals must meet to maintain accreditation.
But... as of 2005, there was not a specific way to check rates on any particular hospital. ABC Story The Consumer's Union has links to state regs for 2006 and info about a Bill being considered to address the issue. But evidently hospitals do NOT want to publish their infection rates.
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I would think that it is because people have a hard enough time going to the hospital as it is let alone if there are facts and figures that without proper context and interpretation will scare them off.
I grew up in hospitals as my mom worked in 2 for over 20 years. She has dealt with hospitals around the world for another 20. While she can assuage most of my fears for most of the illnesses and procedures I have had, it still doesn't make me feel any better about going to the hospital for any reason knowing that there are incompenet staff, nurses, and doctors out there who's simple mistake may cause the death of one person if not many.
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