What's New
MASSPIRG supports legislation to reduce rates of hospital-acquired infections to zero, or as close as feasible, in accordance with the recommendation of the state Department of Public Health. In addition, Hospitals will be required to disclose and publicly report hospital-acquired infection rates.
An estimated 90,000 people die each year from unrelated infections they get while in the hospital. More people die of hospital-acquired infections than from auto accidents and homicides combined.
And right now, you have no way of
knowing how safe or unsafe your hospital is. Hospitals are not required to make
their infection rates public to anyone! One out of every twenty hospital
patients contract infections each year – costing us all nearly $5 billion annually!
Giving the public access to this important information will allow consumers to
make more educated decisions about their health and also encourage hospitals to
work harder to lower their infection rates as well as.
