Business Wire August 22, 2019
Leadership commitment, staffing cited as barriers to health care excellence
Achieving “zero harm” is the fundamental bedrock of safe and effective health care, but a new survey from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare found as many as 1.98 million health care professionals don’t feel they have the resources they need to help their organization reach this industry goal.
Through a national survey, 11% of health care professionals – as many as 1.98 million people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s estimate of more than 18 million Americans employed in health care – say they don’t have the tools and training to help their workplace achieve zero harm. In fact, only 49% of respondents strongly agree...