Federal Cuts to Health Care Research and Quality Agency Make Missouri Hospitals Less Safe

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Federal cuts to health care research and quality agency make Missouri hospitals less safe

(Thomas Barwick/Getty Images).The Trump administration recently slashed funding for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an agency that works to improve our health care system. Such budget cuts threaten to make Missouri hospitals less safe, less effective and potentially more prone to devastating medical errors. While not as well-known as other federal health care agencies, AHRQ is the only agency that works to improve …

HOSPITAL STAFF AT BREAKING POINT

Healthcare workers are sounding the alarm over a looming wave of trauma in hospitals, following the government’s blunt admission that it can no longer support the collapsing health system, leaving patients to fend for themselves SESUPO RANTSIMAKO The Ministry of Health (MoH) has failed to provide clear guidance or a contingency plan for healthcare workers,…