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Prioritizing Patient Safety and Quality Care Every Day for Everyone

This week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside down.
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Can Collaborative Efforts to Improve Device Design Improve Safety?

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) brought together a small group composed of hospital and health system leaders, device manufacturers and policy leaders to explore how to make devices safer by design.
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Hospitals Improve Patient Safety as We Advance Health in America

America’s hospitals and health systems have always aimed to provide the highest quality and safe care to patients, while helping every individual achieve their maximum potential for health.
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Chair File: Hospitals’ Unwavering Commitment to Ensure Patient Safety

September 17 is World Patient Safety Day. It’s an opportunity to spotlight the importance of ensuring all patients receive safe, quality care in all health care settings.
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Continuing to Strive to Improve Patient Safety

Patient safety is the top priority of every caregiver. Hospitals and health systems never stop searching for ways to improve quality, performance and results for the individuals and families who entrust them with their care.
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Leadership Dialogue — Focusing on Patient Safety With AHA Board Member Steve Diaz, M.D., of MaineGeneral Health

In this episode, I talk with Steve Diaz, M.D., chief medical officer at MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and an AHA board member. Steve is an emergency medicine physician by training and has been involved in many of MaineGeneral’s health care quality and safety initiatives.
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3 Takeaways from Patient Safety Session at AHA Leadership Summit

The AHA’s Patient Safety Initiative had a huge presence at last month’s AHA Leadership Summit. Over three days of spectacular programming, the initiative’s three priority areas – Culture of Safety, Health Equity and Workforce Safety – were all well-represented.
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Ensuring Access to Quality Care for Patients in Rural America

For the roughly 60 million Americans living in rural areas, their local hospital is the lifeblood of their community.
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Chair File: Accelerating Efforts to Enhance Patient Safety and Quality

This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week.
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Hospitals Are Leading the Way to Advance Patient Safety

To support and advance those efforts, the AHA recently launched a new Patient Safety Initiative that seeks to energize all the work already underway and reaffirm hospital and health system leadership and commitment to patient safety.