{"id":29091,"date":"2011-11-02T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/medicare_report_calls_for_better_tracking_of_serious_hospital_errors\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:14:16","slug":"medicare_report_calls_for_better_tracking_of_serious_hospital_errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29091","title":{"rendered":"Medicare report calls for better tracking of serious hospital errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare inspectors must do a better job of tracking reports of serious mistakes in care at the nation&#8217;s hospitals, as well as of informing rating agencies of the errors, according to a report released today by the agency&#8217;s inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of serious errors go unrecorded, the report found, because the inspectors who find problems at hospitals don&#8217;t tell the national agencies that accredit hospitals. That means that those hospitals continue to participate in Medicare and that they don&#8217;t learn from their mistakes, Inspector General Daniel Levinson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Levinson wrote, no one tracks the effectiveness of policy changes or how the hospitals actually correct mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-11-01-medicare01_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare inspectors must do a better job of tracking reports of serious mistakes in care at the nation&#8217;s hospitals, as well as of informing rating agencies of the errors, according to a report released today by the agency&#8217;s inspector general.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29091\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,670,149,104,675,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-medicare","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}