An important note about this as an average–some hospitals have incredibly low hospital-acquired infection rates, and others are shockingly high. A HUGE factor is just how nice the facilities are and how well-trained the doctors are, which is why there are 3rd parties that evaluate as much for hospitals each year. Do your research and know where to go in your area that has scored highest on quality of care investigations!
Assuming that you have a choice. Most hospitalizations aren’t planned.
Quite a lot are planned–surgeries, for example. Best to do your research. Also, if you’ve already done your research and then have an emergency, you’ll know which hospital to go to.
Not every surgery!
Where do we go for reputable care investigation reports?
If you’re in the US (it is the cdc) you can look up healthcare acquired infection rates on the CMS website.
There is also this: https://www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/. It gives a letter grade for hospitals using some of that cms data and some other required / optional metrics.
Mind you, the data sets provided by CMS are usually 2 years old and the hospitals may have made improvements since that data. Reimbursement is tied to those rates being lower (sort of)
To add on, sometimes accreditation organizations will post their survey results online for public review. The Joint Commission operates a site called QualityCheck.org for example. where you can search for a hospital they’ve surveyed and review their findings under certification history.
Thanks for the assist!
The broader spectrum of medical malpractice is something that probably should get more attention than it does.
Time to ban hospitals.
My wife is a nurse and went through the whole pandemic without getting COVID. She did get it however, when she was waiting for her gall bladder removal surgery just after things were getting back to normal.
What is the goal of posting this
I learned it today
To inform?
To inform what, what are you going to do with this info
What do you have against being informed?
Well, y’know, ignorance is bliss, sometimes
And that’s why the world is in this shitty state.
Thinking (specially thinking critically) consumes too much energy and too many people are unwilling to do it.
Maybe someone who holds the misconception that hospitals will “bail them out” of bad lifestyle habits when they get sick will see this and start taking a proactive approach to maintaining their health.
It’s plausible!
What is anyone going to do with anything from this community. The other day there was a post about how there used to be rocks with some words on them in the middle of nowhere.
I suppose that this information at the least could inform people to be more perceptive of signs of infection after a hospital visit given how common they can be.
