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JCAHO announces plans for international center for patient safety

Patient Safety Monitor Alert, March 16, 2005

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) announced on March 11 plans to create the Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety.

The new center plans to launch its Web site in April. Initially, the center will identify, gather, analyze, and distribute patient safety solutions around the world. In addition, the center will focus its efforts on creating organizational cultures of safety.

The JCAHO has appointed Peter B. Angood, MD, as chief patient safety officer and co-leader of the new center. He will collaborate with the center's other principals, Richard Croteau, MD, executive director for strategic initiatives, and Laura Botwinick, who is on leave and returning to the JCAHO as a vice president this summer. Angood will work with critical resource groups to combine patient safety initiatives and products, and to create a database of patient safety solutions.

"We feel that much progress has been made in improving patient safety over the past decade, but we are far closer to the beginning of the journey than we are to the end," says Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, president of the JCAHO. "If our efforts are being recognized, that simply means that we must do much more."

To read the JCAHO's press release about the center, click here.

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