Hospitals, especially Intensive Care Units (ICUs), are supposed to be clean, sterile environments. According to a recent study published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), more than half of all patients in ICUs around the world develop infections and are more than twice as likely to die than those patients without infections. Hospital-acquired… Read More
Illinois Launches Hospital Consumer Guide Website
There is a wide disparity in the quality of health care at hospitals and medical providers across Illinois. Statistics show that medical negligence injury or death occurs more frequently at certain hospitals. Illinois residents should feel confident in the hospitals they rely on to treat them and their families. Now, they can research the quality… Read More
Hospital Acquired Infections – Lax Reporting
In the September issue of The Atlantic, David Goldhill, author of “How American Health Care Killed My Father”, talks about how his father entered the hospital with pneumonia, but was killed by a series of infections he picked up while in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital. Unfortunately, thousands of families across the… Read More