Failure to rescue is defined as the mortality rate for surgical patients with complications, and safety-net burden is the fraction of patients covered by Medicaid or uninsured patients in a hospital’s patient population. In a retrospective Nationwide Inpatient Sample study of more than 46 000 patients undergoing high-risk inpatient operations, Wakeam and colleagues1 found higher odds of failure to rescue in hospitals with a high safety-net burden, despite levels of technology that might be expected to improve rescue rates.