HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY PROGRAM
This research examines and assesses the Patient Safety Program of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals as the Program has been implemented and functions at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center Hospital. The findings of the examination and assessment are presented in the following topical discussions:
Description of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center Hospital and of the setting within which the Patient Safety Program functions at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital
Patient Safety Goals and evaluation of the implementation of the Patient Safety Goals
The importance of the Patient Safety Goals in relation to older patients (65 years old and older)
Review and summarization of the tasks that must be accomplished to attain the Patient Safety Goals for 2005
Participants in the Patient Safety Program, together with their roles in the implementation and functioning of the Program
Prediction of a future direction for the Patient Safety Program as the Program has been implemented and as it functions at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center Hospital through 2008
Description of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and the Kaiser
Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center Hospital and of the Setting within which the Patient Safety Program Functions at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center Hospital
Kaiser Permanente Foundation (2005) is an umbrella-organization that is comprised of Kaiser Foundation Health Plans (non-profit corporations funding insured health care to members), Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation that operates hospitals nationwide to deliver health care funded by Kaiser Permanente Foundation Health Plans), and the Permanente Medical Groups (for-profit professional organizations). The general focus of this examination and assessm...