Quality & Patient Safety
CommonSpirit Health and University of Utah Health have announced a strategic clinical alliance to enhance patient access to high-quality medical care across several CommonSpirit hospitals in Utah.
Each year we review a slew of health care outlooks and, after sifting through them, here are a few of the more interesting hypotheses.
TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) is an evidence-based, proactive approach for addressing challenges in health care delivery and promoting a culture of safety. Get a high-level overview of this proven methodology.
Hospital and health system sepsis teams are invited to join the Sepsis Champions Leadership Series, a new collaborative facilitated by the American Hospital Association’s Living Learning Network (LLN) in partnership with the CDC.
Kaiser Permanente (KP) has begun the journey to enculturate High Reliability Organization principles to decrease harm. Learn how a virtual radio show format can be used to spread culture change, connecting the dots between HRO principles and daily operations. KP speakers share the fun of creating a…
In this “Safety Speaks” conversation, CommonSpirit Health's Beth Miller, system director, patient safety-performance improvement, and Austin Peterson, system director, patient harm prevention, discuss how safety transparency benefits both patients and providers, and how a CommonSpirit Health…
In this “Safety Speaks” conversation, CommonSpirit Health's Beth Miller, system director, patient safety-performance improvement, and Austin Peterson, system director, patient harm prevention, discuss how safety transparency benefits both patients and providers, and how a CommonSpirit Health…
The Next Gen Fellowship allows fellows to feature their transformative work through videos and capstone projects.
In this conversation, Oren Guttman, M.D., anesthesiologist and vice president of High Reliability & Patient Safety at Thomas Jefferson University, discusses the mindset of resilience engneering, the future of patient safety and the big questions this work reveals.
In this conversation, Oren Guttman, M.D., anesthesiologist and vice president of High Reliability & Patient Safety at Thomas Jefferson University, discusses the mindset of resilience engineering, the future of patient safety and the big questions this work reveals.