New data released January 29 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show reductions in hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and healthcare-associated infections helped prevent 20,500 hospital deaths and save $7.7 billion in health care costs from 2014-2017. AHRQ’s preliminary analysis estimates that […]
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AHA event – great start for patient safety goals
Blog by Kristin Jenkins, President of the DFWHC Foundation It was an honor to attend the American Hospital Association (AHA) Leadership Conference, July 27-29 in San Diego. I was present with Patti Taylor, the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation’s director of quality and patient safety. We were there as a team representing our local Health […]
Hospitals Care about Patient Safety
The acronym “HAC” does not sound appealing. When you learn it means Hospital-Acquired Condition, you know there is nothing appealing about it at all. If you have been a patient on the receiving end of a HAC, you can confirm it’s as unpleasant as it sounds. Many of us have read stories about patients who […]