BC Advantage - 2007 Issue 11

HOW SAFE ARE PATIENTS IN YOUR PHYSICIAN PRACTICES, NETWORK, AND AMBULATORY CARE CENTERS?

In this edition of IMA Insights, we will discuss patient safety, which represents a significant public health issue. Concerns that tight financial margins may impact care quality fuel its prominence in the public eye.Initially, patient safety programs focused on acute care providers. But, physicians' offices, networks, and ambulatory care centers (ACCs) provide the majority of healthcare, a shift from inpatient to outpatient that will continue. Moreover, these settings comprise growing portions of hospitals' and health systems' business portfolios. As patients become savvier about patient safety and quality issues, a practice's failure to resolve these concerns will erode patient...

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