Quality CON - Government Oversight System
The CON has done very little to enforce the role of quality in reducing the rate of cost increases. (A report on the Certificate of Need in Kentucky 1997, Subcommittee on Health Care Access and Cost Oversight.)
On Nov. 29,
2005 the Fletcher Administration proposed the following CON criterion:
“A documented history of uncorrected quality control problems which threaten the life, health and safety of the hospital’s patients. Examples may include higher than normal rates of preventable hospitalization, medication errors, or hospital acquired infections”.
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