Hospital networks develop standardized patient safety practices
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, May 30, 2007
Wellmont, Novant, and Adventist Health systems have started the Safest Hospital Alliance, an organization dedicated to implementing 172 practices aimed at increasing patient safety.
The alliance's goal is to take the piecemeal changes and improvements that hospitals have tried over the years and assimilate them into a single system that focuses on patient safety, according to a United Press International article. The hope is that a unified approach will help hospitals permanently improve their procedures.
The three systems that compose the alliance collectively treat 1.5% of hospital patients in the
To access the complete article, go to www.upi.com/Health_Business/Analysis/2007/05/18/analysis_hospitals_face_heat_to_cut_error/6727/print_view/.
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