| News from the American College of Surgeons For Immediate Release: June 29, 2011 |
Contact: Sally Garneski |
Today the American College of Surgeons issued the following comment on the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare’s wrong site surgery project:
“The American College of Surgeons welcomes the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare’s wrong site surgery project, because it adds to our understanding of the issues surrounding surgical patient safety. The better we understand the issues, the more effective the surgical community can be in cultivating a culture of patient safety, which is our highest priority.”
-- David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, executive director, American College of Surgeons
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Online June 29, 2011