Children’s hospitals have ‘stopped competing on safety’ — maybe adult hospitals should too

Becker's Healthcare July 3, 2024
Mariah Taylor

In 2012, a program for children’s hospitals in the U.S. and Canada launched to eliminate patient and employee harm.

The Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety Network started in Ohio with a handful of children’s hospitals. Hospitals share all their data and case studies around patient harm, including central line infection, unplanned extubations, adverse drug events and surgical site infections. The transparency allows hospitals to standardize processes and learn together.

“We agreed to never compete on safety,” Stephen Muething, MD, chief quality officer at Cincinnati Children’s...

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