Project: Oregon behind on data transparency
Oregon, typically a progressive state, releases much less data about the quality and safety of its hospitals in at least one important database.
Project: Measuring patient safety
Five prominent Oregon hospitals do worse than the national average on a key measure of patient safety.
Project: Oregon releases less health data
While many states make information related to medical care complications public, Oregon does not. That means that the best information about an individual hospital’s quality and safety may be kept from the public.
Project: Medical harm
Each year thousands of patients are harmed by medical care in Oregon. A Bend woman, Mary Parker, was one.
Project: Preventing Medical Harm
Avoidable complications in hospitals kill more patients each year than AIDS, motor vehicle accidents and homicides combined. Why experts say hospitals are not as safe as they should be.