October 4, 2017
Trudy Lieberman
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THINKING ABOUT HEALTH
Hospitals May Get Accredited Even With Poor, Unsafe Care
Increasingly, it’s becoming clear there are few places patients and their families can turn for help in avoiding bad care and equally important there’s almost no guidance from state or the federal regulators. When news outlets try to write about unsafe hospitals, they run into a “veil of secrecy that protects the industry” as one reporter in Michigan put it