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Perhaps we shouldn't be so shocked about this in wake of a recent Detroit News report that showed surgeons and staff at the Detroit Medical Center have been concerned for years about dirty, broken and missing surgical tools.
Karen Bouffard of The News now reports that three Detroit Medical Center hospitals -- Harper University Hospital, Detroit Receiving and Sinai Grace -- are among 20 in Michigan that were docked 1 percent of Medicare payments for their score in a federal ranking.
Hospitals with scores greater than 6.75 from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lost funding. Others on the list were Sparrow Carson Hospital in Carson City; Hurley Medical Center in Flint; McLaren Flint; Doctors Hospital in Pontiac and Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall.
The ratings don't reflect current performance, DMC says in a statement:
“The DMC has been involved in state and national health system initiatives to implement best practices, which have led to reductions in central line and catheter-associated infections. Additionally, our medical staff has implemented several local initiatives to reduce preventable conditions.
“Our medical staff has implemented several initiatives to reduce HACs, including enhancing training for staff, physicians and residents, and reviewing all hospital acquired conditions to improve and transmit learning across the system. We continue to work toward a goal of zero preventable conditions.”
