Mac’s Safety Space: Breaking news: PFIs take a flyer!
Hospital Safety Insider, July 14, 2016
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Well, I suppose there was a certain element of inevitability to this. First, the expulsion of the most global "FIs" in the Joint Commission arsenal-the Requirement for Improvement (RFI) and the Opportunity for Improvement (OFI)-which left only one FI to be expelled, our good friend and (sometimes) benefactor, the Plan for Improvement (PFI). And that day has come (I don't think there are any intact FIs kicking around, but I could be mistaken...).
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