Monday
Apr122010
Healthcare Safety Must Improve, Says Actor Quaid
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 5:13PM
By Justine Rellosa
Talk Radio News Service
During an address inside the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Monday, actor Dennis Quaid called for better quality and safety within the U.S. healthcare system, and presented a new manual created by the National Quality Forum (NQF).
“It is time to make a call to action to encourage policy makers to tie the NQF’s 'Safe Practices For Better Healthcare,' to healthcare reform, challenge hospital leaders to adopt them, and ask the public to demand them,” said Quaid.
Quaid, whose newborns nearly died after a nurse misread medication instructions and accidentally administered deadly doses of the blood thinner Heparin to them, urged a new era of medical safety.
“The great organizations and people who could help America push the envelope and make the zone of safe care bigger for all of us and our families will prove to be those that truly have the right stuff.”
According to the NQM, approximately 15 million instances of medical harm occur each year, resulting in estimated costs of between $17 billion and $29 billion per year.
Talk Radio News Service
During an address inside the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Monday, actor Dennis Quaid called for better quality and safety within the U.S. healthcare system, and presented a new manual created by the National Quality Forum (NQF).
“It is time to make a call to action to encourage policy makers to tie the NQF’s 'Safe Practices For Better Healthcare,' to healthcare reform, challenge hospital leaders to adopt them, and ask the public to demand them,” said Quaid.
Quaid, whose newborns nearly died after a nurse misread medication instructions and accidentally administered deadly doses of the blood thinner Heparin to them, urged a new era of medical safety.
“The great organizations and people who could help America push the envelope and make the zone of safe care bigger for all of us and our families will prove to be those that truly have the right stuff.”
According to the NQM, approximately 15 million instances of medical harm occur each year, resulting in estimated costs of between $17 billion and $29 billion per year.
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