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Article: Patient safety tops priorities of health care risk managers; ASHRM panel: Organizational support backs shift in thinking.
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- October 22, 2007
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Byline: KRISTIN GUNDERSON HUNT
CHICAGO-Patient safety is at the forefront of health care risk management-a shift from years ago, a group of expert panelists said.
Communicating patient safety across health care institutions is the No. 1 priority of health care risk managers, according to panelists speaking at the 2007 American Society for Healthcare Risk Management conference held Oct. 10-13 in Chicago.
Geri Amori, a panelist and senior director of the Lansing, Mich.-based Risk Management & Patient Safety Institute, said the increasing institutionwide focus on patient safety parallels the shift in thinking regarding health care risk managers' ...