How Safe is Your Hospital? Overview
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein To achieve our vision for optimal...
Fast Fact: Hospital Community Benefit Dollars Can Benefit Community Development
Fact Non-profit hospitals receive financial benefit from their tax-exempt status—valued at $24.6 billion in 2011. In light of recent...
The hospital was a success, but 195,000 patients died
(Alt: What will you be thinking on the operating table?) At some point, like most Americans, you’re going to find yourself in the...
What can we do to make all hospitals safe?
A number of years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on the personal tragedy of Catherine "Pat" Zakrzewski, who died after acquiring...
How Good Are Our Hospitals and Other Healthcare Stakeholders at Public Reporting?
In 1917, Chas. Scott Miller, M.D., then Chief, Division of Vital Statistics, Bureau of Health, Philadelphia, Pa., proposed the...
