Patient Engagement April 7, 2022
AdventHealth has recently been recognized as an exemplar in patient safety for its system for supporting all of its hospitals in healthcare quality improvement.
For AdventHealth, one of the biggest faith-based health systems in the country, patient safety isn’t just a tick-the-box metric; it’s essential to overall quality and patient experience.
In fact, patient safety fits hand-in-glove with healthcare quality and experience, according to William Scharf, MD, the executive clinical director of safety and quality for AdventHealth. When the Institutes of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine, broke ground first with To Err is Human and again with Crossing the Healthcare Quality Chasm, the healthcare paradigm shifted. It became clear through those seminal papers that patient safety is,...