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Safety Collection

Check out our ten most recent safety pieces below. Peruse our entire safety repertoire here.

Delivering Unbiased Healthcare

Our current Black maternal mortality statistics are staggering in a country of wealth.
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A Digital-First Approach to Care Redesign

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Solutions to the Maternal Morbidity Crisis

The maternal death rate in the United States remains elevated, but there are signs of improvement as hospitals standardize care. Maternal deaths, especially among Black pregnant and postpartum patients, are unacceptably high. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, the U.S. has a higher rate of maternal mortality than any other developed country.
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Necessary Change: Redesigning Care to Achieve Patient Safety

Care redesign efforts that are underway or being planned to improve patient safety and quality should continue, despite epidemic levels of staff burnout and turnover. These efforts may even help resolve persistent staffing challenges.
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Equity Is Essential to Patient Safety

Healthcare providers are realizing that without an intentional emphasis on equity, patient safety cannot truly be achieved—and they’re taking steps to put into practice initiatives that lean into the nexus of those two intertwined goals.
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Black Maternal Healthcare: A First-Person Perspective

My recent experiences have reenergized my commitment to continue to make the U.S. healthcare space more conducive to mothers.
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6 Ways to Effectively Manage Hospital Communication

Communication management is critical to achieving positive results.
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Effective Quality Planning

As health systems continue to move forward to address their ever-present workforce issues, it’s important not to lose sight of the safety and quality “never events” that teams have worked so hard to prevent. As a refresher, we recommend returning to the teachings of W. Edwards Deming to “focus on reducing variation” and strengthening quality planning efforts.
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Reducing Readmissions

It is well known that care coordination is important in the management of chronic conditions, for which patients often receive care in multiple settings. Lack of communication and information sharing among healthcare entities can lead to poor patient outcomes such as preventable hospital readmissions, recurrent ED visits and medication errors.
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Ensuring Equitable Age-Friendly Care

The Age-Friendly Health Systems movement is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association of the United States. The aim is to provide age-friendly care to all older adults across a system regardless of race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender identity or social circumstance.
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