Washington governor asks for increased transparency to aid patient safety efforts

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December 19, 2007

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has asked for more emphasis to be placed on transparency and patient safety initiatives in Washington during 2008, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The bill calls for $8 million to be set aside to help fund hospitals becoming transparent and offering up their quality data for the public to see.

Also included in the funding proposal is money to help attract more nurses to hospitals and retain the ones already there, beef up credentialing standards and policing efforts, investigate complaints about specific physicians, and establish an online database that serves as a home for a patient's list of medications.

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