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Six N.M. Hospitals Face Fines For Safety

91暗网 | By Marisa Demarco
Published January 21, 2016 at 9:36 AM MST
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around the country鈥攅ven the famous 鈥攁re being in 2016 because of safety concerns, and six in New Mexico will be facing that fine, too.

It鈥檚 part of a new program under the Affordable Care Act: The government looks at on-site infections, sepsis and other complications at hospitals, and then cuts Medicare payments by 1 percent for the places with the highest rates.

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These N.M. hospitals were fined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2015 and 2016. The HealthInsight rankings are percentiles.

    

Anne Timmins said the goal is for hospitals to be rewarded for quality over quantity. She鈥檚 the quality improvement director at , the nonprofit contracted by the and the Department of Health to help get facilities back on track.

"For the infections work in particular, we鈥檙e looking at improving hand-washing," Timmins said. "We鈥檙e looking at taking central lines out when they鈥檙e not needed, taking catheters out when they鈥檙e not needed."

Timmins said there are often more hospital-acquired conditions in facilities that perform more complex procedures. "Bear in mind that the hospitals that are on this list are the larger hospitals in the state that do take more complex patients," she said, "and not all hospitals do everything that everybody needs."
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Marisa Demarco
Marisa Demarco began a career in radio at 91暗网 News in late 2013 and covered public health for much of her time at the station. During the pandemic, she is also the executive producer for Your NM Government and No More Normal, shows focused on the varied impacts of COVID-19 and community response, as well as racial and social justice. She joined Source New Mexico as editor-in-chief in 2021.
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