Practicing Reduces Malpractice

Philadelphia hospitals started running simulations of high-risk incidents, such as child birth, and the results are encouraging:

Such training has helped Penn cut malpractice costs by 26 percent since 2011, to $92.2 million in the year ended June 30, even as revenue has risen 28 percent, to $4.3 billion.

Temple University Health System has logged an even steeper decline in liability costs, to $11.3 million in fiscal 2015 from $48.1 million in 2011, records show.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has the story.