Kentucky Injury Law Blog

Medical facilities list 77 errors
Bedsores reported most frequently

By Lesley Stedman Weidenbener
lstedman@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Mitch Daniels urged Hoosiers yesterday not to punish the 41 Indiana hospitals and surgical centers that reported serious medical errors or incidents in 2006.

The 77 problems were reported under a new system designed to track such mistakes and improve patient safety. The list was released by the state Department of Health.

Medical facilities list 77 errors.

I commend these facilities for recognizing these 77 errors.  Now if they would own up to the other few thousand, maybe we would be getting somewhere.

We know, based on the Harvard study, that hospital errors kill 195,000 people per year in the United States.  Indiana contains slightly more than 2% of the US population.

You do the math.