Taking Aim at Safety
"We can make health care safer. Not just a little safer, a lot safer," The Joint Commission President Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, said in a press conference today announcing the launch of a new center to improve patient safety.
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is working with the nation's leading hospitals and health systems to use new methods to find the causes of and develop solutions for deadly breakdowns in patient care.
Read the full report here, or go to the Center's Web site: www.centerfortransforminghealthcare.org
The Center's first initiative is hand washing, which Chassin says is the simplest, most cost effective way to prevent health care-associated infections that kill nearly 100,000 Americans annually.