Santara Healthcare Safety System

Santara Healthcare Safety SystemNameInstitutional AffiliationDate Development of safety culture within a healthcare organization will improve patient satisfaction and at the same time ensure that the physicians can carry out their activities in a convenient manner. However, developing a culture of safety is one of the biggest challenges affecting the operation of a healthcare facility. For a healthcare facility to thrive, it is important for them to implement a culture of safety and come up with metrics to assess the effectiveness of the culture of safety CITATION Poz15 \l 1033 (Pozgar & Santucci, 2015). These metrics involve measuring the patient satisfaction and reporting on the cases of harm reported within the healthcare facility on a regular basis. Sentara Healthcare is an integrated healthcare system launched in 2002 to foster a culture of safety in a number of hospitals. It has its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia with about 10 acute care hospitals. It mainly carries out is operations in North Carolina and Virginia CITATION McC11 \l 1033 (McCarthy & Klein, 2011). The main aim of the program is to reduce...