Patient safety efforts in a Healthcare Organization

Patient safety efforts in a Healthcare Organization

This paper will explore patient safety efforts in hospitals. The hospital that has been selected for this paper is Community Hospital East. The patient safety efforts at this hospital aim to protect patients from costly mistakes of the hospital. The hospital management takes special steps in order to protect patients from the severe consequences that could be produced by ventilators. The special efforts are directed towards protecting patients from ventilators' adverse consequences because more than one in seven patients, in the United States, acquires deadly Ventilator-associated pneumonia. The healthcare ...