Maryland Activity (28 items)
"Hospitals can reduce medical errors and cut unnecessary hospital-related infections with the use of a checklist."
Maryland state officials said yesterday that they are creating teams of staff members at hospitals across the state to secretly monitor their colleagues' hand-washing habits as part of a first-of-its-kind program. The monitors will contribute to a statewide report on hand washing.
Money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will pay $1 million for infection control in ambulatory surgical centers in Maine, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Arkansas, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming and Kansas.
Under laws that took effect last year in Virginia and a few years earlier in the District and Maryland, hospitals must report to health regulators many serious injuries that patients suffer in the course of treatment.
On July 1, the state's hospitals will receive financial incentives based on the steps taken to prevent complications, including collapsed lungs and infections of the urinary tract and in the blood.
The hospital failed to notify the Department of Health that a patient had died and that at least seven others suffered serious harm last year as a result of mistakes by the medical staff.
The CDC has provided funding for the University of Maryland to study the best way of combating antibiotic- resistant staph infections.
Maryland hospitals must disclose their rate of patient infections under a bill passed unanimously by both the Senate and House.
Lawmakers in Maryland are considering legislation to require hospitals to disclose their infection rates.
Learn about Maryland's efforts to alter its payment system for preventable hospital acquired conditions and events that harm patients.
Testimony on MRSA bill to the Senate Finance Committee considered by the 2009 Maryland General Assembly.
Mission Statement:
The Maryland Coalition for Patients’ Rights is a grassroots alliance of parents, children, siblings, friends, patients and concerned citizens dedicated to promoting, protecting and preserving the civil rights of all patients. Through education, public awareness and political action, CPR is fighting to preserve the right to safe, honest and professional healthcare for all Marylanders and, in cases of injury suffered as a result of negligence and mal-practice, the right to legal redress and fair and just compensation.
http://www.coalitionforpatientsrights.org/Luckily I have had only three hospitalizations, two of which were giving birth to my children. I hope to keep it that way.
I'd love to know how a state with a mandate for reporting hospital error has NO reported events and I personally know of several, all from the same hospital that eventually caused my daughter's death.
My father died in a rehab section (he was recovering form a broken hip) of the Manor Care facility in Rockville due to the fact that the Physical Therapist had a respiratory infection and still worked with him...the day before he was to be released, we were told that he had pneumonia and he died in his sleep...
More than 290,000 surgical site infections occur in U.S. hospitals each year. Patients who acquire infections from surgery spend, on average, an additional 6.5 days in the hospital, are five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge, and twice as likely to die.
Surgery patients are at risk for infection because surgical incisions create a pathway for germs to enter the body. Maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is therefore critical to protect patients from being contaminated with bacteria, which can lead to infection.
How well is your hospital, state and the nation as a whole are performing on three key practices that help prevent infections during surgery? Find out here »
Our beautiful little girl Candace became psychotic after first being given overdoses of not one, but two sedatives that were not to be combined with the prescription drug she was taking. The sedatives were also administered incorrectly, by IV push, rather than titrated slowly through a saline solution.
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Mark Bennett was a vibrant and independent 88 year-old World War II combat vet when he entered the hospital in February 2004 with a virus. Hospital personnel passed to him at least six different bacteria including fecal bacteria found in his sputum, multi-drug resistant strains throughout his body and a "flesh eating" bacteria that took his leg. His kidneys were destroyed, his trachea collapsed, his heart was damaged and his blood was poisoned. He went undiagnosed for days, was left untreated and received wrong medications. Despite daily visits to the hospital, his family was never informed of his conditions. After four months and having been moved through five different hospitals, Mark Bennett died.
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