Sunday, February 13, 2011

Investigation of quality of care in Las Vegas hospitals

This is from Paul Levy's "Not Running a Hospital" blog. In the video below Brian Greenspun, Publisher and Editor of the Las Vegas Sun speaks about an extensive investigation of the quality of care delivered by hospitals in that section of Nevada by reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards and others. The essential message is that transparency and the willingness to face up to errors may actually reduce lawsuits and enables a hospital to learn from its mistakes.