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Stanford, Menlo Park hospitals penalized over patient safety

Original post made on Dec 15, 2015

Stanford Health Care and Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Menlo Park Surgical Hospital will see their Medicare reimbursements drop by 1 percent after Medicare found their patients had too many hospital-acquired conditions, according to documents recently released by the federal Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.

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Posted by vkmo
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Dec 15, 2015 at 3:08 pm

Cal beats Stanford. UCSF has an excellent record of patient safety.

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Posted by PH
a resident of Rengstorff Park
on Dec 15, 2015 at 3:46 pm

El Camino Hospital gets the best score. This did not surprise me at all. We're lucky to have such a great hospital right in our community.

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