Becker's Healthcare March 14, 2023
Quality patient outcomes cannot happen without safety as a foundation, Karla Miller, MD, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s chief patient safety officer, wrote in a March 13 blog post. The hospital operator, like many others, emphasizes patient safety as a key responsibility for its 294,000 employees, and now it is incorporating new measures to deepen these efforts.
HCA’s “Good Catch” program was rolled out by the system to prioritize accountability and reporting of errors that could affect patient safety and understand how and why they happened, so they don’t again.
“Reporting of close calls allows facilities to intervene and correct weaknesses in processes or systems before harm occurs,” Dr. Miller wrote. “We scale the learnings from these events across our...
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