Friday, July 01, 2011

HEALTH - Hospital Patient Safety, Doing It Right

"Denver Hospital Sets the Bar for Patient Safety"
PBS Newshour 6/30/2011

Congratulations Denver Health.

Excerpt from transcript

DR. DONALD BERWICK, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: They are getting levels of performance that most of the rest of us in health care can only envy. The vast majority of their patients are either uninsured or Medicaid patients. They deal with a very, very stressed population. And they are proving that that kind of care isn't just kind of good enough. It can be the best care -- actually, the best care in the country. They are showing the rest of us what's possible.

Note (as stated in video) Denver Health has been doing this for 7 or 8 years!

ALL hospitals in America need to learn from this example.

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