HealthLeaders Media July 23, 2018
Infrastructure changes from healthcare system mergers can challenge clinicians and cause risk to patients.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Staff needs training to care for new patient populations resulting from a merger.
Physicians need orientation to new care sites.
Plan ahead to address infrastructure changes.
This article by John Palmer originally appeared on PSQH.
A new collaborative study by researchers from two Boston healthcare systems has unlocked findings about adverse risks to patients when hospitals go through mergers, acquisitions, and other organizational changes that are intended to improve the safety and quality of care.
The study, “The Risks to Patient Safety From Health System Expansions,” is a collaborative effort from Susan Haas, MD, Atul Gawande, MD, and Mark...
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