Tenet Healthcare Joins the Obama Administration’s Partnership for Patients
April 13 2011 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced that it
has joined the Administration’s Partnership for Patients, a
public-private partnership designed to improve patient safety
within hospitals that was launched this week by U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
“We are pleased to be a part of this partnership to improve
patient safety,” said Kelvin A. Baggett, M.D., Tenet's chief
medical officer. “This partnership is consistent with our on-going
commitment to improve the care we provide to our patients and with
our goal of becoming the safest provider of care in the communities
we serve. We see the Partnership for Patients as a logical
extension of Tenet’s Commitment to Quality which we launched in
2003.”
Tenet’s Commitment to Quality strives to improve both the
quality of medical care and patient safety by evaluating processes
and promoting best practices. This includes evidence-based medicine
and stresses continuous performance improvement.
The Department of Health and Human Services anticipates this new
program could save 60,000 lives over the next three years and save
up to $50 billion in Medicare costs over the next decade. The
partnership's two main goals are to lower the number of preventable
hospital-acquired conditions by 40% and reduce preventable hospital
readmissions by 20% by the end of 2013, compared with 2010.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a health care services company
whose subsidiaries and affiliates own and operate acute care
hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and diagnostic imaging
centers. Tenet’s hospitals and related healthcare facilities are
committed to providing high quality care to patients in the
communities they serve. For more information, please visit
www.tenethealth.com.
Some of the statements in this release may constitute
forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are
based on our current expectations and could be
affected by numerous factors and are subject to various
risks and uncertainties discussed
in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K for
the year ended Dec. 31, 2010, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q,
and periodic reports on Form 8-K. Do not rely on any
forward-looking statement, as we cannot predict or control many of
the factors that ultimately may affect our ability to achieve the
results estimated. We make no promise to update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of changes in underlying factors,
new information, future events or otherwise.
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