Patient-Safety Efforts To Be Scaled Up In HHS Initiative
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
HHS plans to unveil "the largest national effort on patient safety ever seen," CMS Administrator Donald Berwick said at a health policy meeting last week in Washington, D.C.
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