Teaming Up
South Carolina Hospitals
"We applaud the courage of the South Carolina Hospital Association and its participating hospitals for daring the strive for high reliability and aiming to achieve the ultimate goal of zero harm."
Mark Chassin, MD, President and CEO, The Joint Commission
Michigan Hospital Association
Michigan hospitals are committed to patient safety. This Center collaboration is different because it showcases the leadership's commitment to transform health care delivery.
South Carolina Safe Care Commitment
Since 2013, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has collaborated with the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) through the South Carolina Safe Care Commitment, a multi-year engagement that works with participating hospitals to strengthen their processes, systems, and structures, resulting in patient care that is consistently excellent and consistently safe.
The initiative includes health care organizations representing approximately 50 percent of the acute care discharges throughout the state with new organizations joining the work each year. CEOs and other executives from participating South Carolina hospitals meet regularly to collaborate on strategies to move health care toward the same highly reliable performance seen in industries such as aviation and nuclear power.
The collaboration between SCHA and the Center is part of the Center’s efforts to solve health care’s most critical safety and quality problems by creating solutions for progressing toward high reliability in health care.
Oro 2.0 Development
For more information about teaming up with the Center please contact Coleen Smith, RN, MBA, CPHQ, CPPS is the Director of High Reliability Initiatives, Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, at .
Michigan Health & Hospital Association Joins the Team
The Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) and its member hospitals have established a long-standing reputation for leadership on patient safety and quality improvement. At its Nov. 4, 2015, meeting, the MHA Board of Trustees acted to further that commitment by unanimously supporting a motion for Michigan hospitals to begin the journey to become Highly Reliable Organizations (HROs).
Sam R. Watson, MHA’s senior vice president of patient safety and quality and executive director of the MHA Keystone Center, said in a recent interview, “Achieving high reliability in healthcare is the next step in improving Michigan’s quality of care, reducing costs and minimizing institutional risk for both patients and providers.”
The MHA is the second state in the US to partner with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare on a statewide HRO improvement effort. “High reliability in healthcare signifies excellent care is consistently delivered, with a commitment to zero preventable harm,” Watson added.
Michigan’s partnership with the Center for Transforming Healthcare will allow Michigan hospitals to systematically look at and develop strategies to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency, customer satisfaction, compliance and organizational culture, while ensuring the best care is provided to every patient, every time. Read the press release.
For more information about teaming up with the Center please contact Coleen Smith, RN, MBA, CPHQ, CPPS is the Director of High Reliability Initiatives, Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, at .