The ACA is joining doctors, nurses and other health care providers in the Partnership for Patients Pledge.

An Obama health initiative that will attempt to save dollars in the coming years by preventing medical errors.  The ACA has signed on to the initiative.

Some of the sobering statistics which lead to the program, taken from the Partnership on the Healthcare.gov site:

• At any given time, about one in every 20 patients has an infection related to their hospital care.
• On average, one in seven Medicare beneficiaries is harmed in the course of their care, costing the government an estimated $4.4 billion every year.
• Nearly one in five Medicare patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days – that’s approximately 2.6 million seniors at a cost of over $26 billion every year.

You can read more on this initiative in Chiro Economics.

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