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Apr
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: home modifications that enable safe and comfortable features--listing of smart housing suggestions, Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACs) Reduction --result of proposal in Affordable Care Act, hospitals being censured patients' care negligence--cuts in payments from Medcare as a result, Leapfrog Group--and its work as a nonprofit organization devoted to ensuring patient safety
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, federal records show. The number is the highest since the federal government five years ago launched the Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) Reduction Program, created by the Affordable Care Act. […]
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