Chief Healthcare Executive March 13, 2025
Ron Southwick

A new American Hospital Association report points to improvements in patient safety. The report suggests a better safety culture improves outcomes and helps employee well-being.

Five years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have made progress in improving patient safety, according to a new American Hospital Association report.

Along with improvements in safety, hospitals are seeing better patient outcomes and more positive experiences in their workforce, the report states. The American Hospital Association collaborated with Press Ganey on the report, which was released Wednesday.

The report comes six months after a previous American Hospital Association report that outlined gains in patient safety. Other reports examining hospital quality and patient safety have found that hospitals are generally doing a...

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