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HAIs costly under new PA plan
Infection Control Monitor, February 2, 2007
A new healthcare plan offered by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell would over time stop paying healthcare providers to treat hospital-acquired infections (HAI), which the governor said should never happen. The plan also calls for new regulations that would require hospitals to implement evidence-based methods to reduce infections.
Under Rendell's Prescription for Pennsylvania, the state will improve patient safety and save billions in healthcare costs by helping to halt the spread of HAIs, according to a press release. "When you check into the hospital, the last thing you should have to worry about is whether you may become sicker, or even die, just because you were hospitalized," Rendell said. "My plan will strongly encourage hospitals to do what other have been able to do--stop the spread of preventable infections that
seriously harm patients too often and needlessly drive up the cost of
health care."
To read the complete release, go to http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-24-2007/0004512194&EDATE.
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