Re: Penn. Hospitals Can Make You Sick

I've been incredibly sick for days now. No where near a hospital. No where
near a physician's office. In fact, I don't leave the GD house..... this
sucks.

(Daughter and SIL both work with the public so I blame them!)

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Bambi
The Midlife Mentor, LLC
"Liz" <lizhug1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can get just as sick in your own state's hospitals. At least
Pennsylvania hospitals are required to report their incidents of
infection!

"Jay Vance" <jayvance@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"...it is the process of care, not the underlying clinical condition of
the patient, that drives the current epidemic of hospital-acquired
infections."

"2005 data from 168 hospitals show that 19,154 patients had acquired an
infection that year while hospitalized in Pennsylvania. Of them, 2,478
died in the hospital, a mortality rate of 12.9% compared with a rate of
2.3% for all patients.

Hospital-acquired-infection patients' average length of stay was 20.6
days compared with 4.5 days for all patients, and their average charge
was $185,260 compared with $31,389."

Remind me not to get sick in PA.

Jay





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