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From The Newsroom: Keeping Patients Safer, And Graduates Employed

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Almost half of those who fracture their hip in a hospital fall die within a year.

Top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: Why a hospital can be the worst place to break a hip - and what John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth is doing to prevent their patients from doing so. And we hear Greg Abbott's pitch for linking college graduation rates to state funding. 

Lyndsay Knecht is assistant producer for Think.