By Healthcare Facilities Today

According to a blog on the Health Leaders Media website, financial incentives for preventing healthcare-acquired infections are not adding up to much.

Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital move three years ago to frame the need for preventing healthcare-acquired infections points in financial terms did not have the desired effect, according to the blog. Turning to numbers as motivation, suggests a lack of other significant incentives to take HAI prevention seriously.

However, a recent study found that hospitals make big profits from infections when health plans are paying the bill, and there is little financial incentive to work harder to prevent them.

Health Leaders Media's blogger discusses four disincentives for higher HAI rates, that she deems visually meaningless inn terms of financial consequences.

Read the blog and related stories here.