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- Case Management Advisor
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- November 1, 2009
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TJC takes aim at patient safety failures
The Joint Commission (TJC) says it is teaming up with top hospitals and health systems across the United States to use new methods to find the causes of and put a stop to dangerous and potentially deadly breakdowns in patient care.
TJC, based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, is launching the Center for Transforming Healthcare, and the organization says its first initiative is tackling hand-washing failures that contribute to health care-associated infections that kill nearly 100,000 Americans each year and cost U.S. hospitals $4 billion to $29 billion annually to combat.
Eight hospitals and health systems ...