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MA hospitals must report errors under new rules

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Massachusetts Public Health Council are to implement aggressive public reporting of hospital errors, reports Boston Herald. Hospitals are now required to report to the state all significant errors, including surgeries on the wrong people and surgeries on the wrong side of a person and the state is required to publish reports. The new regulations also prohibit hospitals from charging patients for care that is required as a result of a hospital error.

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