Health Care Reform

National Patient Safety Efforts Save 87,000 Lives and Nearly $20 Billion in Costs

Report shows hospital-acquired conditions decline by 17 percent over a four-year period

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2015.  A reportreleased by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today shows that thanks in part to provisions of the Affordable Care Act, an estimated 87,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and nearly $20 billion in health care costs were saved as a result of a reduction in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2014. Preliminary estimates show…

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