Someone Needs to Oversee Patient-Safety Issues

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I'm curious about state government's reluctance to provide funding for a full-time position in the Utah Department of Health for someone to oversee patient safety issues at hospitals and surgical centers.

This week, the Utah Department of Health and other officials unveiled a several-pronged plan to investigate risk factors and reasons for deaths attributed to medications and illicit drugs. The goal is to reduce them. The Legislature funded a position to help those efforts.

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Someone Needs to Oversee Patient-Safety Issues

I'm not complaining about that, by the way. Utah leads the nation in non-medicinal use of medications. And about 470 people died last year because of prescriptio...

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