AHRQ May 19, 2023
By Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A.

On May 11, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration announced an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency that has been in place for three years. While the Nation is still vigilant about COVID-19 to avoid resurges of the virus, we must now turn our attention to the ongoing healthcare issues facing our Nation.

Several signals indicate that progress has stalled or reversed due to the stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic put on our local healthcare delivery systems and their workforces. The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grade , one of many indicators that measure healthcare quality, provides data that speak to recent trends.

First, some encouraging news: According to the Leapfrog report, Clostridioides difficile infection rates improved 15 percent when...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Safety, Survey / Study, Trends
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