St. Charles Health System’s four Central Oregon hospitals are among more than 20 in Oregon participating in the second round of a federal program designed to improve patient safety, but which ...

That’s the rationale behind calls to create a “National Patient Safety Board,” an independent federal agency that would be loosely modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board ...

That's the rationale behind calls to create a "National Patient Safety Board," an independent federal agency that would be loosely modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board ...

It’s hard to improve what you don’t measure. That’s been the most peculiar contradiction in Oregon’s patient safety program since it began. It’s time it changed. The state Legislature ...

We need a National Patient Safety Board. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is also approaching 200,000, with The New York Times recently reporting that the milestone may already have been crossed ...

This is for advisory boards that are being developed to solve a certain problem. Even for more general patient safety advisory boards, however, it's necessary to identify areas of focus.

Although hospital boards understand finances, a leading patient safety expert says they lack education about safety issues. Tejal Gandhi, M.D., chief executive officer of the National Patient ...

The National Patient Safety Foundation has announced the appointment of new members to its board of directors and board of governors. Rick Boothman, University of Michigan Health System’s chief ...

The strike, for nurses, is about quality patient care, Schwartz said. But Maureen Schriner, spokeswoman for the 14 hospitals from six health systems affected by the strike, suggested strikers want ...