These stories examine systemic quality lapses at hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies and how the government’s efforts to stop them fall short. One story found that medication oversights occurred at a quarter of home health agencies, exposing some patients to the risk of taking dangerous or even deadly combinations of drugs. Another story showed that some hospitals fail to inform patients about the low quality of nursing homes they are going to. Two other pieces examined Medicare’s effort to crack down on hospitals with high infection rates and other patient injuries.
