Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Rating Scores Just Released!

Click on this link to see how your local hospitals did.

 

These scores are compiled based on 28 performance measures, all currently in use by national measurement and reporting programs. These measures consider practices such as how often a hospital gives patients recommended treatment for a given medical condition or procedure. For example, "Use antibiotics right before surgery" measures how often a hospital gives patients an antibiotic within one hour before surgery. Other measures represent the environment in which patients receive care. For example, "Doctors order medications through a computer" represents whether a hospital uses a special computerized system to prevent medication errors. A final example would be measures that represent what happens to a patient while receiving care. For example, "Dangerous object left in patient's body" measures how many times a patient undergoing surgery had a dangerous foreign object, like a sponge or tool, left in his or her body. (Yes, this still happens!) The Hospital Safety Score methodology has been peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Patient Safety. 

The 2014-2015 Enrollment period is about to begin!

It has been reported that "the number of Connecticut residents without health insurance had been cut nearly in half -- from almost 8 percent of the population to 4 percent -- following the implementation of Obamacare."While some plans may automatically renew, enrollment  opens for everyone on November 15th and continues until February 15, 2015. BUT, for your plan to become effective on January 1 you must sign up by December 15th.

Let's make sure that the word gets out to the 4% - the 2nd enrollment period is about to begin!