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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, October 2016
There are two words hospital officials do not want to hear during a Joint Commission survey: "immediate threat."
Yet that was the harsh reality facing officials several months ago at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, a healthcare facility that has been widely recognized throughout the last decade as a leader in patient safety and quality improvement. During a survey in May, the hospital was issued a "preliminary denial of accreditation" after surveyors discovered a performance issue that posed "a threat to patients or other individuals served."
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