Consumer Reports' ratings of hospitals on infections, the possibility of a hospital losing CMS funding for patient safety issues and a sewage leak in a hospital captured the attention of infection control and clinical quality readers last week.
The following are the 10 most read infection control and clinical quality articles from Becker's Hospital Review for the week of July 27, starting with the most popular.
1. Consumer Reports rates hospitals on infections: 9 highest, 12 lowest performing hospitals
2. Good Shepherd Medical Center could lose CMS funding for putting patients at risk
3. Chuck Lauer: Who are you combating the 'weekend effect'?
4. Number of 5-star hospitals increases in CMS' Hospital Compare data update
5. Nurse accused of scalding newborn at St. Joseph Medical Center
6. Which 9 hospitals reported zero C. diff and MRSA infections?
7. Sewage leak threatened patients at Venice Regional Bayfront
8. Midland Memorial Hospital springs into action after bugs found in patient room
9. US News names Best Hospitals: 6 things to know
10. Infection preventionists approve 11 C. diff prevention recommendations