This Is A Headline You Want To Avoid

For any executive in the health and human service field, this is a headline you want to avoid – 12 Hospitals You Might Want to Avoid.

Of course, if you are a health care consumer, that’s the kind of headline that catches your attention (it caught my attention). This story, from Consumer Reports, identified the lowest scoring hospitals for infection prevention using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Consumer Reports ranked over 4,000 hospitals in the United States based on the rates for two of the most common and deadly bacterial infections in hospitals: MRSA and . . .