Posted by: Stanley Quan on: June 18, 2010
Niagara Health Quality Coalition report released
“Hospitals periodically develop an allergy to public reporting of the quality of their care and, their leaders being as human as the rest of us, who can blame them? Most people would run from that kind of scrutiny.
The thing is, though, it works.
Hospital care has continued to improve in Western New York and around the state, according to the latest report from the Niagara Health Quality Coalition. Other factors may be influencing the hospitals’ improving quality of care, but without doubt, a prominent one is that the data is reported to the public. That’s a powerful incentive to perform.”
