An estimated 50,000 more patients are alive today that would n't be if hospitals kept making the same number of mistakes they did in 2010 . And these were n't simple incidents . A 2010 federal investigation had found that 27 % of Medicare patients had come to some kind of harm because of the care they received at the hospital . The report also said that, while there were improvements made by doctors and nurses, " many problems remain uncorrected or have not been adequately addressed since 2009."
An estimated 50,000 more patients are alive today that would n't be if hospitals kept making the same number of mistakes they did in 2010 . A 2010 federal investigation had found that 27 % of Medicare patients had come to some kind of harm because of the care they received at the hospital . The report also said that, while there were improvements made by doctors and nurses, " many problems remain uncorrected or have not been adequately addressed since 2009."