Advancing Health Care Safety
A seminar by Jonathan Young
Thursday, November 9 at Columbia Basin College's room L102. This room is located in same building as the library, but opens to the outside with the door facing the HUB building.
Developing an improved understanding of failures that threaten patient safety and implementing measures to reduce patient risk are major goals for PNNL. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that about 98,000 deaths occur annually due to health care failure. It is critical the health care industry lower these statistics. Hospitals are for healing. In response to a recent standard from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), more than 18,000 accredited health care organizations in the U.S. and Canada are performing analyses and developing ways to prevent errors that could threaten patient safety. Hospitals, health care networks, health maintenance organizations, integrated delivery networks, preferred provider organizations, clinical laboratories, as well as me care, assisted living, behavioral health care and ambulatory care organizations are among the organizations that will conduct these assessments. With the help of tools used in the nuclear, aerospace and chemical industries, researchers here at PNNL are helping make sure hospitals and other health care organizations stay that way.
For more information and a map to the location, view the CS&T Series flier for this seminar.
