Posted on 04/30/2002 2:21:34 AM PDT by 2Trievers
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
When a plan to force Connecticut hospitals to disclose mistakes that kill or seriously injure their patients surfaced in the legislature's public health committee last year, lobbyists sharpened their political scalpels.
The initiative didn't survive long.
Almost as soon as the "mandatory reporting" requirement appeared in an early draft of a bill, it was surgically removed at the behest of the influential Connecticut Hospital Association. CHA officials consider their accomplishment a public service - they argued that the heightened fear of lawsuits and disciplinary actions would have made hospital staff more secretive about mistakes, not less so.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...
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