AHA: Hospitals improve patient safety measures above pre-pandemic levels

The American Hospital Association has released a report finding that hospital and health system performance on key patient safety and quality measures was better in the first quarter of 2024 than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospitals cared for more patients in the first quarter of 2024 than in the last quarter of 2019, and provided care to a sicker, more complex patient population, the report said.

Despite patients being sicker and having more complex conditions, in the first quarter of 2024, hospitalized patients were on average...