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To advance the hospital fields progress in meeting the Institute of Medicines Six Aims: care that is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely and patient-centered, the AHA Board of Trustees has urged the association to make three Strategic Performance Commitments (SPCs) for 2014-2016.
Approximately 11,000 fatal patient falls occur in U.S. hospitals annually, but hospitals using new measurement systems and solutions from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Preventing Falls with Injury project were able to reduce the number of patients injured in a fall by 62…