With medical errors remaining the third-leading cause of death in the United States, employers and health care purchasers are increasingly concerned about keeping their employees safe from harm, as well as keeping down costs. To address this challenge, nonprofit patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group(Leapfrog) has created the new Hospital Safety Score Purchaser Toolkit. This toolkit features the Hidden Surcharge Calculator, recently validated by The Care Innovations™ Validation Institute, which helps employers determine how much they spend unnecessarily due to medical errors within general acute care hospitals…
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