Headlines: GAO Waits on Medical Safety Data
FALLS CHURCH – A roundup of news headlines relating to health safety collated by RASMAS staff. Click on the underlined publication for the story:
- GAO Says Wait for Patient Safety Data: Nearly five years after Congress passed a law mandating that data be collected about medical errors that affect patient safety, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is another year away from receiving any data, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, Federal Computer Week reports.
- Standard Household Ingredients Kill Virus: A PLoS One study shows that common household cleaners like 1% bleach, 10% malt vinegar, and an all-purpose cleaner rapidly and completely inactivated a strain of seasonal H1N1 influenza.
- Historic St. Vincent’s Hospital Struggles: For more than 150 years, St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan has been a beacon in Greenwich Village, serving poets, writers, artists, the poor and the working-class, The New York Times reports.
- Canadian Health Safety Show Planned: Partners in Prevention 2010, the Ontario Health & Safety Conference & Trade Show takes place at the International Centre located at 6900 Airport Road in Mississauga, May 4 – 5, 2010, with a pre-conference program for small businesses and organizational leaders on May 3, 2010.
