Healthcare Innovation November 11, 2021
On Nov. 10, The Joint Commission issued guidance via its complimentary publication Sentinel Event Alert on addressing healthcare disparities by improving quality and safety
On Nov. 10, The Joint Commission announced that it had issued a Sentinel Event Alert [a complimentary publication of The Joint Commission], “Addressing health care disparities by improving quality and safety.”
The press release on the alert states that “The alert helps guide healthcare organizations to position disparities as a central part of performance and patient safety improvement.”
Further, “Healthcare disparities are a critical patient safety and quality issue. Non-Hispanic Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women. The COVID-19 pandemic has further widened disparity gaps as non-Hispanic...
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