National patient safety work saves lives, money, says HHS

Healthcare IT News: About 125,000 fewer patients died due to hospital-acquired conditions and more than $28 billion in healthcare costs were saved over five years from 2010 through 2015, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report released December 12.

Hospital patients experienced over 3 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 through 2015 - a 21 percent decline in the rate of these events over that period. The decline of hospital-acquired infections was a major goal of the Affordable Care Act to improve the quality of healthcare.

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