Don’t let reports of hospitals doing poorly cause you
false hope that you are automatically safe if you use another hospital. Newsday December 23, 2014
We know that as well as bad things happening in
hospitals, lives are saved each and every minute of each day. But, I don’t want to take away from even one
life being cut short because of a medical error, hospital acquired infection or
unplanned outcome. Reports that a
hospital has lower ratings than another gives reason for leadership to pat
themselves on the back – but even in the “best” hospitals people have bedsores,
die from infections and can be given the wrong medication. Even if they don’t make the news. To let our guard down even for a second is a
cause for concern.
Never had a car
accident? So should you stop wearing
your seat belt? Cancel your
insurance? No. We must use these reports only as an
opportunity to continue the conversation, recognize we aren’t where we need to
be yet and continue the education and advocacy that was started long ago. This report is screaming that PULSE of NY is
important and patient safety groups need to step it up a notch and work closer
where the problem is – in the hospitals and at the bedside.
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