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Pursuant to your request, we reviewed the impact
of regulatory requirements being imposed on hospitals.
As agreed with your office, we studied three separate
areas of hospital regulatory requirements--inspections,
reports, and Life Safety Code enforcement.
Although hospitals are subjected to many inspections
and are requested to complete many forms and reports,
our work indicates that the degree to which they are
duplicative or similar is not as great as other studies
on this subject have reported. Further, we believe that
efforts by Federal, State, and private organizations
currently underway to reduce the existing duplication
and similarity of inspections and information requests
are improving the situation, and should be continued.
Our work on Life Safety Code enforcement showed that
most deficiencies in our sample of hospitals have been
or are in the process of being corrected, and they cost
hospitals an average of at least $31,000 to correct.
HOSPITAL INSPECTIONS
Hospitals are subjected to inspections by Federal,
State, and local governments, and by private sources. The
three hospitals where we conducted a detailed analysis
identified a total of 101 different inspections. About
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