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Patient Safety Tool: Einstein Healthcare Network’s National Patient Safety Goals Poster

The Einstein Healthcare Network offers a series of free, downloadable posters designed to help healthcare providers achieve National Patient Safety Goals established by The Joint Commission. The ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Joint Commission makes health equity a national safety goal

While current requirements for accredited hospitals will not change, The Joint Commission is upgrading one leadership standard to a national patient safety goal. The move emphasizes the importance of ...
Daily Journal

Johnson Memorial Health earns ‘A’ rating from Leapfrog Group

Johnson Memorial Health recently earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national ...
USA Today

Patient safety awareness focus of new report as preventable medical errors kill thousands

Patient safety likely remains the nation's third leading cause of death and addressing it needs to be a key national priority, a presidential panel said this week. The panel released a report ...
CNN

A national safety board made transportation safer and could do the same for health care, advocates say

People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can’t hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes? That’s the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

30 moves from The Joint Commission in 2023

In 2023, The Joint Commission has overhauled accreditation standards, elevated health equity to a national patient safety goal, launched a new certification program and more. Below are 30 actions and ...
JD Supra

Health Equity Elevated to a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal

Starting July 1, 2023, The Joint Commission (TJC) will set health equity as a National Patient Safety Goal for certain TJC-accredited organizations and roll out a new Health Care Equity certification ...