Profitable complications. One analysis says that in some cases infections can actually help a hospital boost its bottom line, but naysayers disagree.
While no one is saying that hospitals try to induce infections to raise their bottom lines, one analysis says that the bottom line is healthcare providers do cash in when patients get infected in their facilities. Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa., is one hospital that has invested in infection prevention. Steve Danch, the hospital's CEO, says infection rates dropped by "focusing on the root causes."
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