Car technology helps prevent hospital falls among patients

It may come as a surprise, but hospitals are not the safest place when it comes to the danger of falling. Possibly due to medications and lack of familiarity, a patient falling is a very serious problem for hospitals. The technology you've seen in cars is helping cut down on falls. A fall at home has put Henry Garza in the hospital with a fractured hip. "He just turned around I think too fast, and just twisted his ankle," Irene Garza, Henry's wife, explained. Henry said, "I couldn't move my leg." The danger of falling isn't just at home. Somewhere between 700,000 and one million hospital patients fall each year. It's a serious issue.