Re: Anti-Gun Democrats DEFEATED, Again - NINE (9) Pro-Gun Bills Advancing in Tennessee!

On May 17, 10:38 am, "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsen...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Re: Anti-Gun Democrats DEFEATED, Again - NINE (9) Pro-Gun Bills
Advancing in Tennessee!

-----http://www.vpc.org/press/0905gundeath.htm

* States with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in
Gun Death:
Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, and Nevada Have Highest Gun
Death Rates *

Washington, DC -- States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun
laws have the highest rates of gun death according to a new analysis
by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) of just-released 2006 national
data (the most recent available) from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control.

The analysis reveals that the five states with the highest per capita
gun death rates were Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, and
Nevada. Each of these states had a per capita gun death rate far
exceeding the national per capita gun death rate of 10.32 per 100,000
for 2006. Each state has lax gun laws and higher gun ownership rates.

By contrast, states with strong gun laws and low rates of gun
ownership had far lower rates of firearm-related death. Ranking last
in the nation for gun death was Hawaii, followed by Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. (See below for top and bottom
five states. Seehttp://www.vpc.org/fadeathchart09.htmfor a ranking
of all 50 states.)
---

* States with the Five Highest Gun Death Rates *
1 - Louisiana --
     Household Gun Ownership: 45.6%
     Gun Death Rate per 100,000:: 19.58

2 - Alabama --
     Household Gun Ownership Gun Death Rate per 100,000: 57.2 percent
     1Gun Death Rate per 100,000: 6.99

3 (tie) - Alaska
     Household Gun Ownership: 60.6 percent
     Gun Death Rate per 100,000: 16.38

3 (tie) - Mississippi
     Household Gun Ownership Gun: 54.3 percent
     Gun Death Rate per 100,000: 16.38

5 - Nevada
     Household Gun Ownership: 31.5 percent
     Gun Death Rate per 100,000: 16.25...

[ TENNESSEE ranks number EIGHT with a Gun Death Rate of 15.52 per
100,000. ]

...VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand states, “More guns means
more
gun death and injury. Fewer guns means less gun death and injury.
It’s
a simple equation....”
-----

The *real* people who are loosing here *are* the people of the state
of Tennessee!

“More guns means more gun death and injury. Fewer guns means less gun
death and injury. It’s a simple equation.”

  -Tom Sr.

Shut them down!

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In Hospital Deaths from Medical Errors at 195,000 per Year USA
09 Aug 2004

An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially
preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000,
2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records
that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality
company.

The HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals study is the
first to look at the mortality and economic impact of medical errors
and injuries that occurred during Medicare hospital admissions
nationwide from 2000 to 2002. The HealthGrades study applied the
mortality and economic impact models developed by Dr. Chunliu Zhan and
Dr. Marlene R. Miller in a research study published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association (JAMA) in October of 2003. The Zhan
and Miller study supported the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 1999
report conclusion, which found that medical errors caused up to 98,000
deaths annually and should be considered a national epidemic.

The HealthGrades study finds nearly double the number of deaths from
medical errors found by the 1999 IOM report "To Err is Human," with an
associated cost of more than $6 billion per year. Whereas the IOM
study extrapolated national findings based on data from three states,
and the Zhan and Miller study looked at 7.5 million patient records
from 28 states over one year, HealthGrades looked at three years of
Medicare data in all 50 states and D.C. This Medicare population
represented approximately 45 percent of all hospital admissions
(excluding obstetric patients) in the U.S. from 2000 to 2002.

"The HealthGrades study shows that the IOM report may have
underestimated the number of deaths due to medical errors, and,
moreover, that there is little evidence that patient safety has
improved in the last five years," said Dr. Samantha Collier,
HealthGrades' vice president of medical affairs. "The equivalent of
390 jumbo jets full of people are dying each year due to likely
preventable, in-hospital medical errors, making this one of the
leading killers in the U.S."

HealthGrades examined 16 of the 20 patient-safety indicators defined
by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - from
bedsores to post-operative sepsis - omitting four obstetrics-related
incidents not represented in the Medicare data used in the study. Of
these sixteen, the mortality associated with two, failure to rescue
and death in low risk hospital admissions, accounted for the majority
of deaths that were associated with these patient safety incidents.
These two categories of patients were not evaluated in the IOM or JAMA
analyses, accounting for the variation in the number of annual deaths
attributable to medical errors. However, the magnitude of the problem
is evident in all three studies.

"If we could focus our efforts on just four key areas - failure to
rescue, bed sores, postoperative sepsis, and postoperative pulmonary
embolism - and reduce these incidents by just 20 percent, we could
save 39,000 people from dying every year," said Dr. Collier.

The HealthGrades study was released in conjunction with the company's
first annual Distinguished Hospital Award for Patient SafetyTM, which
honors hospitals with the best records of patient safety. Eighty-eight
hospitals in 23 states were given the award for having the nation's
lowest patient-safety incidence rates. A list of winners can be found
at http://www.healthgrades.com.

Study Highlights Among the findings in the HealthGrades Patient Safety
in American Hospitals study are as follows:

-- About 1.14 million patient-safety incidents occurred among the 37
million hospitalizations in the Medicare population over the years
2000-2002.

-- Of the total 323,993 deaths among Medicare patients in those years
who developed one or more patient-safety incidents, 263,864, or 81
percent, of these deaths were directly attributable to the incident
(s).

-- One in every four Medicare patients who were hospitalized from 2000
to 2002 and experienced a patient-safety incident died.

-- The 16 patient-safety incidents accounted for $8.54 billion in
excess in-patient costs to the Medicare system over the three years
studied. Extrapolated to the entire U.S., an extra $19 billion was
spent and more than 575,000 preventable deaths occurred from 2000 to
2002.

-- Patient-safety incidents with the highest rates per 1,000
hospitalizations were failure to rescue, decubitus ulcer and
postoperative sepsis, which accounted for almost 60 percent of all
patient-safety incidents that occurred.

-- Overall, the best performing hospitals (hospitals that had the
lowest overall patient safety incident rates of all hospitals studied,
defined as the top 7.5 percent of all hospitals studied) had five
fewer deaths per 1000 hospitalizations compared to the bottom 10th
percentile of hospitals. This significant mortality difference is
attributable to fewer patient-safety incidents at the best performing
hospitals.

-- Fewer patient safety incidents in the best performing hospitals
resulted in a lower cost of $740,337 per 1,000 hospitalizations as
compared to the bottom 10th percentile of hospitals.

The complete study, including the list of AHRQ patient-safety
indicators, can be found at http://www.healthgrades.com.

"If the Center for Disease Control's annual list of leading causes of
death included medical errors, it would show up as number six, ahead
of diabetes, pneumonia, Alzheimer's disease and renal disease,"
continued Dr. Collier. "Hospitals need to act on this, and consumers
need to arm themselves with enough information to make quality-
oriented health care choices when selecting a hospital."

Distinguished Hospital Awards and Findings

In addition to its findings on patient safety, HealthGrades today
honored 88 hospitals in 23 states with the Distinguished Hospital
Award for Patient Safety, the first national hospital award to focus
purely on hospital patient safety. The award was designed to highlight
hospitals with the best records of patient safety in the nation and to
encourage consumers to research their local hospitals before
undergoing a procedure.

HealthGrades based the awards on a detailed study of patient safety
events in hospitals nationwide from 2000 to 2002, using the list of
patient-safety incidents developed by AHRQ. "Best" hospitals were
identified as the top 7.5 percent of the hospitals studied and had
significantly different patient-safety incident rates and costs
compared to hospitals that were average or in the bottom 10th
percentile. Among the "best" hospitals, the lower number of avoidable
deaths and in-patient hospital costs were directly related to their
lower overall patient-safety incident rates.

"If all the Medicare patients who were admitted to the bottom 10th
percentile of hospitals from 2000 to 2002 were instead admitted to the
"best" hospitals, approximately 4,000 lives and $580 million would
have been saved," said Dr. Collier.

About HealthGrades

Health Grades, Inc. (OTCBB: HGRD) is the leading independent
healthcare quality company, providing ratings, information and
advisory services to healthcare providers, employers, health plans and
insurance companies. HealthGrades works with healthcare providers to
help assess, improve and promote their quality. HealthGrades provides
consumers access to information about healthcare providers and
practitioners through its Web site and provides liability insurers,
employers and payers with critical information about healthcare
quality.

Source:

Sarah Loughran,
HealthGrades

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