Topic: Patient Safety

Enhancing patient safety is a continuous challenge. Proactive measures build community trust and minimize adverse experiences. Here are five ways to improve safety in healthcare facilities.
What is Patient Safety?
Patient safety goes beyond the physical safety of patients.

How do you ensure patient safety in today’s increasingly complex healthcare environment? The commonly held belief that 250,000 preventable inpatient deaths occur every year has thankfully proven unfounded, but this does not lessen the need to identify patient safety risks. 

By Linda Ash-Jackson, MD
In the SEC³URE Ethos community, we strive to make quality healthcare as accessible as a good cup of coffee by creating an environment of trusted encounters between all participants in the healthcare journey.

The number of reported measles cases in the U.S. have reached their highest level since the disease was domestically eradicated in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

When you walk down the hospital hallways, have you ever wondered about the people you pass? Do they work at this facility, are they contractors, do they represent a pharmaceutical company?

How do you stop patient safety issues before they occur? Is there a proactive way to identify potential problems and avert them early? The answer is an astounding yes. There are several things that healthcare organizations can do from a compliance standpoint to improve patient safety,