Quality and Safety
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The 14-bed hospital serves all of Butte County, whose population of 2,501is spread over territory half the size of Connecticut.
As 1,000 patients a day still die from preventable errors, Leapfrog report shows which facilities are failing to improve.
Federal agency tells providers it has received reports of hospital fires requiring hospital evacuations, according to letter to administrators.
Lowest performing hospitals before passage of the Affordable Care Act showed biggest improvement after being penalized, researchers say.
Some physicians are concerned moving the surgeries out of hospitals will land vulnerable patients in the emergency room with pain, complications.
In the past 20 years, the rate of hospitalization among seniors that is related to opioid overuse has quintupled.
Eliminating the waiting room sends the message that the hospital is waiting for the patients, not the other way around, said Feinberg.
Hospitals say they fear violating government decree that hospitals can't "specify or otherwise limit" patient's choice, but are not prohibited from advising on quality of facilities.
From sample of 1,202 adults, eight percent of respondents said they or someone in their household had imported a drug at some point.