HealthLeaders Media December 23, 2019
The slow pace of hospital quality improvement frustrates patient safety advocates.
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IHI CEO and President Derek Feeley says there are moral and financial imperatives for making safety a priority.
IHI Senior Fellow and President Emeritus Donald M. Berwick, MD, says he fears that hospital leaders are not prioritizing patient safety.
ORLANDO – Hospital leaders must adopt safety and quality as primary business strategies, rather than regarding them as tertiary metrics that rank below finances and other stressors on the C suite’s list of top priorities.
That’s according to Derek Feeley, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Speaking to reporters here this month at IHI’s 31st National Forum, Feeley says there are moral and financial imperatives...
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