Hospital networks work to develop standardized patient safety practices
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
May 23, 2007
Wellmont, Novant, and Adventist Health systems have started the Safest Hospital Alliance, an organization dedicated to implementing 172 practices to increase patient safety.
The goal is to take the piecemeal changes and improvements 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 on the alliance. The hope is that a unified approach will help hospitals to improve permanently.
The three systems treat 1.5% of hospital patients in the United States, according to the article. All three say they will implement the changes by July 1.
