Becker's Healthcare February 18, 2025
Surveying the U.S. healthcare landscape, some leaders are wondering, what if safety was valued as a purpose, rather than a priority?
Patricia Gaffigan, RN, senior advisor on patient and workforce safety for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, voiced this question at an IHI conference in December. She said priorities are at risk of being reduced to a set of improvement projects — like fleeting goals, or something beholden to a start and end date.
When asked to describe the difference between safety as a priority and safety as a purpose, leaders from UCSF Health, M Health Fairview, Inova Health System and Jefferson Health told Becker’s that while priorities are important, they can deprioritize other plans, or even be...
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