Medicare is penalizing 721 hospitals nationwide with high rates of potentially avoidable medical mistakes that can harm patients, known as “hospital-acquired conditions.”
Penalized hospitals will have their Medicare payments reduced by 1 percent over the fiscal year that runs from October 2014 through September 2015.
To determine penalties, Medicare evaluated three types of hospital-acquired conditions.
- CLABSIs – Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infections
- CAUTIs – Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
- Other Serious Complications – including blood clots, bedsores, and falls
Hospitals Being Penalized in North Carolina
- Alamance Regional Medical Center, Burlington, NC
- Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC
- Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville, Charlotte, NC
- Caromont Regional Medical Center, Gastonia, NC
- Carteret General Hospital, Morehead City, NC
- Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory, NC
- Cleveland Regional Medical Center, Shelby, NC
- Nash General Hospital, Rocky Mount, NC
- Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
- Rutherford Hospital Inc., Rutherfordton, NC
- Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City, NC
- Southeastern Regional Medical Center, Lumberton, NC
- University Of North Carolina Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
- Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC
- Wakemed, Cary Hospital, Cary, NC
- Wakemed, Raleigh Campus, Raleigh, NC
- Wilmington Treatment Center, Wilmington, NC
South Carolina Hospitals Penalized
- Aiken Regional Medical Center, Aiken, SC
- Beaufort County Memorial Hospital, Beaufort, SC
- Conway Medical Center, Conway, SC
- Kershaw Health, Camden, SC
- Mcleod Medical Center – Dillon, Dillon, SC
- MUSC Medical Center, Charleston, SC
- Novant Health Gaffney Medical Center, Gaffney, SC
- Oconee Medical Center, Seneca, SC
- Palmetto Health Baptist, Columbia, SC
- Palmetto Health Baptist Easley, Easley, SC
- Palmetto Health Richland, Columbia, SC
- Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, Spartanburg, SC
- TRMC Of Orangeburg & Calhoun, Orangeburg, SC
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