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Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Takes Aim at Patient Safety Failures
Joint Commission news, 09/11/09

Teaming up with top hospitals and health systems across the country to use new methods to find the causes of and put a stop to dangerous and potentially deadly breakdowns in patient care, The Joint Commission is launching the Center for Transforming Healthcare. The Center’s 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.

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