The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lecture 2011 New Frontiers in Patient Safety (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Keynote Presentation--The Honorable Kathleen G. Sebelius, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Keynote Presentation--The Honorable Kathleen G. Sebelius, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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That's a fairly frightening fact. Just as important, the initial report, and the 2001 report that followed, made it clear that the problem wasn't indifferent or poorly trained health care providers.
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By applying those lessons, they've reduced patient falls by 25 percent and bedsores by 75 percent, and those are just some of the outcomes that have been very successful. In March, I was in Ohio, where a group of The Consortium of Children's Hospitals and about a dozen adult hospitals have come together, from urban areas and very rural areas, with the business community and with patient advocates to form a partnership to improve patient care.
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This wasn't all health care-associated infections; it was only infections associated with one procedure in the hospital. It was not even all central line infections; it was just in ICUs that those statistics were measured.
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If we want to improve the care, we're already behind the curve, so we have got to start now. Now, I saw this urgency last month when the administration helped launch a new patient safety coalition we call, as Harvey told you, "The Partnership for Patients." We recruited doctors, nurses, pharmacists, hospital leaders, health plans, employers, patient advocates, and patients themselves to work with us on achieving two ambitious goals for the next three years.
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And those reforms will have a bigger impact when they're adopted and implemented by other payers, creating powerful incentives for improving health care across the entire system. So my pledge to you today is that we want to continue to be active partners in improving care, but ultimately, the transformation happens one hospital and one health system and one community at a time.
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Every day, new treatments and therapies are introduced, bringing benefits for patients but also adding more to the complexity that breeds medical errors. If we want a safer health care system, we need to speed up the rate of improvement, and we need the leaders in this room to actually continue to lead the way.
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