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Article: ASSEMBLY OK'S ASSEMBLY MEMBERS GREENSTEIN, MORIARTY BILL TO CREATE RIGHT-TO-KNOW LAW FOR HOSPITAL INFECTION RATES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 21, 2007
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The New Jersey Assembly's Democrats issued the following news release:
Legislation Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein and Assemblymen Paul Moriarty and Joseph Vas are sponsoring to provide health-care consumers unfettered access to reports on infection rates at all New Jersey hospitals was passed today by the Assembly.
The bill (A-4328/455/S-147) would help address issues raised in published reports that found state health officials collect only limited information on hospital infections. News articles also have highlighted a secretive system in which infection rates are withheld from public scrutiny.
"Patients have a basic right to know if a local hospital is an infectious hotspot," said ...