California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting, an independent organization devoted to reporting on California health care issues reporting: “After Carole Moss’s 15-year-old son died from an infection in 2006 in an Orange County hospital, she launched a one-woman crusade to force hospitals throughout California to reveal how many of their patients contract serious infections. “People are dying, and we’re being kept in the dark,” became her mantra as she marched the hallways of Sacramento to push a 2008 public disclosure law called “Nile’s Law,” after her dead son. She won. As of Jan. 3, for the first time, California health consumers will gain the power to click on a state website and scrutinize the infection rates of their local hospitals—rates that Moss believes she should have been told about before taking her son for treatment.” [Dan Mitchel]