Keep Hospital Patients Safe From Infections - The Petition Site

Keep Hospital Patients Safe From Infections - The Petition Site

It's common sense. Patients shouldn't have to pay to treat infections they got while in the hospital. Even Congress agrees -- the health care reform bills passed in the House and Senate would prohibit these payments.

Moreover, as written, health reform would require hospitals to report their infection rates, so patients have the information they need to choose the best, safest hospital for surgery, illness or childbirth. Changes like these have been successful in 27 states. It's past time to extend these safety incentives to every hospital in every community.

Please sign our petition to help make sure these common-sense changes survive the health care reform battle.

Nearly 100,000 people die every year from hospital-acquired infections. That's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people falling from the sky every other day. If jets started to crash like that, the federal response would be swift and strong. We should now expect any less here.