Safety still lags in U.S. hospitals – Our updated Ratings show most hospitals need to improve
April 11, 2013Looking for good news about hospital safety? More hospitals are required to track and report more data, so the Consumer Reports updated hospital safety Ratings now include 2,031 hospitals—up from 1,159 institutions in their August 2012 report. The bad news is that teaching hospitals, which are supposed to prepare future doctors, are lagging and Connecticut has the lowest scoring teaching hospital in the United States! Continue reading here.