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What is meant by the Board of Trustees commitment to patient safety and the hospitals strategic plans?

April 26, 2017commitment hospital meant patient plans safety strategic TRUSTEES

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What is meant by the Board of Trustees commitment to patient safety and the hospitals strategic plans?

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These items relate to the atmosphere (culture) that exists within your organization. Everyone, including the Board of Trustees, must believe and exhibit that patient safety and a non-punitive system based approach to medication error prevention is important. Organizations with open error reporting policies, which are non-punitive and that use results of error analysis to institute system changes that may involve capital investment are in our experience ahead of the curve in safe medication use practices. Answers to these items must be honestly agreed upon between the senior administrator(s) on your assessment team as well as all other members.