By Gina Shaw
Nationwide efforts to make health care safer are paying off, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Thanks, in part, to provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), approximately 125,000 fewer patients died due to hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), and more than $28 billion in health care costs were saved from 2010 to 2015.
In total, hospital patients experienced more than 3 million fewer HACs from 2010 to 2015—the result of a