Feds: Yes, it is.

About 50,000 people are alive today because U.S. hospitals committed 17% fewer medical errors in 2013 than in 2010, government health officials said on Tuesday. The lower rate of fatalities from poor care and mistakes was one of several "historic improvements" in hospital quality and safety measured by CMS. These improvements included a 9% decline in the rate of hospital-acquired conditions such as infections, bedsores, and pneumonia from 2012 to 2013.