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Ok, here it is, The Charities Database where you can review expenses of Hospitals and other non-profits. From Minnesota's Attorney General, Mike Hatch, comes this simple to use link. Follow this Instructions;
1.Click our link above or to the right. Charities Database
2.Go to the bottom of the page and type in Name of Organization.
Only the first part of the name is needed, i.e. "Allina", "Healtheast", "Fairview", "Methodist" or "north Memorial".
Usually a city is not needed for the search, it's that simple.

Adverse Health Events in Minnesota 2006

Overview, Minnesota is the first state to fully adopt the standards established by National Quality Form for reporting adverse health events. Click > Patient Safety to view the 2006 report.

What is it?

What does it tell us?

Since 2003, Minnesota hospitals by law are required to report all Adverse Health Events to the Minnesota Health Department. This report must be to filed within 15 working days from the discovery of the event. Once reported, the facility has 60 days to complete and submit the findings of their root cause, analysis and a correction action plan for each adverse event.

Total number of the events from a list of 27 Adverse Health Events. These 27 events come from 6 categories of care. Listed below are the 6 categories.

1. Surgical Events
2. Environmental Events
3. Patient Protection Events
4. Care Management Events
5. Product or Device Events
6. Criminal Events

Why report the events

Most common event

In a 1999 report, the Institute of Medicine estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die annually because of medical mistakes. Reporting the events without blame is the first steps toward understanding medical errors.

Minnesota's most common problem, not resulting in death or disability, foreign objects such as surgical sponges and instruments left inside patients at the end of operations. In 2005, 39 events, in 2006, 26 events.

"The Good News"

"The Bad News"

Minnesota is the first state to require all its 147 Hospitals and care centers to report the events listed under the 27 Adverse Health Events established by the National Quality Form.

The Public Report only contains numbers. Consumers still lack a complete understanding of the events and corrective plans made by health care facilities. Therefore the numbers alone can not be used to make decisions about healthcare for consumers.