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• Excela Health’s Frick Hospital in Mt. Pleasant. Excela Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carol Fox emphasized that the regional hospital system remains “committed to safety and quality in all aspects of care.” Fox pointed out that since the data used to determine the fine against Frick Hospital dates to 2017, the penalty “lags our improvement efforts.” “Much work has been done and is continuing related to decreasing hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions at each of our facilities,” Fox said in a statement. “It is our goal to reduce and ultimately eliminate hospital-acquired conditions and unanticipated readmissions within 30 days.” Since the Hospital-Acquired Reduction Program began punishing facilities via lower payments in 2015, nearly 2,000 hospitals have been penalized at least once, and, 1,360 hospitals have been penalized more than once, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News. Seventy-seven hospitals have been punished all seven years, inc

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