The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC): announced that hospital-acquired infections at their 11 hospitals have dropped dramatically since 2005 as part of a larger patient safety program to reduce preventable deaths and unnecessary hospital stays.
The new statistics are available on the HHC website, http://www.nyc.gov/hhc, and is part of the public hospital system’s effort to voluntarily share information on hospital quality and safety with the public.
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