HCPro.com: Medical Staff Affairs Monthly

William Cors, MD, MMM, CMSL, Vice President, Medical Staff Services, uses this monthly e-zine to share his observations of emerging challenges and evolving best practices; information about political, regulatory, and legal issues affecting hospitals and their medical staffs; and to identify resources that may prove helpful to medical staff leaders.

September 9, 2008 (Volume 7, Issue 9)

The culture of safety: From a priority to a core value
It is only fitting that thoughts of a culture of safety are top-of-mind as this column is formulated on an airplane miles above terra firma. There may be concerns about the operational excellence of airlines (i.e., what to do if you and your luggage don’t arrive at the same time and place), but there is little question about the culture of safety that characterizes the modern aviation industry. When the plane lands, there are about twelve hospitals within a twenty-mile radius of the airport. If I end up in one, would my thoughts be different about the culture of safety? Consider the 2007 Institute of Medicine report, Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series, which stated that a hospital patient can be subject to about one medication error for every day he or she is in the hospital and that does not include late or missed doses. And that’s just medications!

Other recently-published articles from Medical Staff Affairs Monthly:

A Pilgrim Legacy

How do you spell A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T? Let me count the ways

The culture of safety: From a priority to a core value

Behavior and Patient Safety-Perfect Together?

New medical staff models...let me count the ways

The Kadlec reversal

Welcome to Never Land

How to sink a ship

Certified Medical Staff Leader (CMSL)

I fought the law...and the law won?

Where has all the money gone? Who knows where the time goes?

Going, going, gone...

Fiduciary failure: Aberration or standard operating procedure?

MS-DRGs: Breakthrough or another misaligned incentive?

A Summer Slow-down in Healthcare - Not this Year!

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