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Sep 02, 2009 01:39 AM

NJ: Corzine to sign bill increasing medical error reporting

by NRSKarenRN Staff
Updated Sep 02, 2009 at 01:58 AM by NRSKarenRN

Corzine to sign bill increasing medical error reporting

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine today is expected to sign into law a measure that will allow the state to make public more information on medical errors at individual hospitals. The bill also prohibits hospitals from charging insurers or patients for the cost of care and procedures to correct some medical mistakes or hospital-acquired infections.
NJ.com/The Associated Press (8/30)



Philadelphia Business Journal 9/1/09

New hospital safety law in N.J.

The bill requires the state Department of Health and Senior Services to publish in its annual “New Jersey Hospital Performance Report” hospital-specific results on measures of patient safety. Measures include such serious adverse events as objects left inside patients during surgery, accidental cuts and punctures to patients, or hip fractures suffered in a post-surgery fall
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Old Sep 02, 2009, 12:16 PM

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I hope this will prompt hospitals to hire more nurses and have a lower patient/nurse ratio, and not just prompt them to buy more insurance and scrimp on nursing care.
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Old Sep 02, 2009, 01:29 PM

Default Re: NJ: Corzine to sign bill increasing medical error reporting
Sounds to me like making us (RN's) even more under the gun. Good for consumers, however.
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Old Sep 05, 2009, 09:48 AM

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How about we get a law to make the records of judges and lawyers public? Their errors, I mean.

People go to jail, end up in horrendous financial trouble because of their errors and nothing ever happens to them.
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