“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time,” was aptly stated by American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator C. Everett Koop. While that statement is simple, the healthcare industry is farthest from that.

Like many industries, healthcare has some challenges that are endemic to that industry. Issues such as poor communication amongst teams, procedural workarounds and bias or preferential treatment to senior physicians can often have serious repercussions from misdiagnosed treatment to fatalities.

But all is not lost. In fact, some agencies and organizations have been able overcome challenges through frameworks that focus on the culture of quality.

Let’s take a further look.

The Center for Disease Control’s Key Recommendations to Protect Both the Safety and Quality of Patient Care

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