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JCAHO accepting applications for 2005 Codman award
Quality Improvement Monitor, January 20, 2005
Healthcare organizations may now submit applications for the 2005 Ernest A. Codman Award, the JCAHO announced January 14.
The Codman award recognizes excellence in the use of performance measures to achieve quality improvement. For the first time, disease-specific care certification programs may apply, and JCAHO-accredited programs may submit more than one initiative.
The deadline for application is February 14. Visit www.jcaho.org or call 630/792-5800 to get an application.
Codman was a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was regarded as the founder of outcomes management, according to the JCAHO.
Codman also founded the Hospital Standardization Program, which later became the JCAHO.
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