Hospital Safety Letter to the Editor

Hospital-acquired infections—often the result of inadequate sanitary practices—pose a deadly risk to patients and drive up the cost of hospital care.  Each year about two million patients contract an infection after they are admitted to a hospital causing 90,000 deaths. The good news is that several states have passed laws that require public disclosure of hospital-acquired infections. You can tell your state to enforce its disclosure laws, or to pass such a hospital disclosure law by writing a letter to the editor. We'll collect them and get them to area papers.