Cheryl Clark, March 18, 2013
For the first time, providers, payers, and patients now have an enormous searchable database containing documents detailing about 8,000 serious federal safety rule violations -- many of which have caused serious patient harm or death -- at about 1,000 U.S. hospitals since January, 2011.
The documents, which resulted from federally authorized complaint investigations and are called "2567s," were released over the weekend by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after a long-standing request from and collaboration with the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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