Contential Health Plan
Hospitals in Pennsylvania worked with state officials over the last eight months to develop the new error policy and ensure that it was fair and created incentives to improve care. "We are trying to do everything possible to eliminate these events," said Ken Braithwaite, head of the Delaware Valley contential health plan Council, which represents hospitals in the region. "But until we eliminate them, we as a hospital community don't think we should be paid for them."
The initiative is part of Rendell's broader health-care plan announced last January. The aim is to improve the quality of care, reduce errors, eliminate so-called hospital-acquired infections, and make affordable health insurance available to the nearly 800,000 uninsured Pennsylvania adults. Yesterday, Rendell also announced that 29,000 uninsured people on the waiting list for the state's low-cost adultBasic insurance program would get coverage.
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