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Tag: Patient Safety Awareness Week

NHCC holds Patient Safety Awareness Week
April 3, 2018 — According to the Department of Defense Patient Safety Program, Patient Safety Awareness Week, Mar. 11 - 17, 2018, offered an opportunity to recognize the importance of quality care and patient safety throughout the Military Health System. It also emphasized the importance of unifying military treatment facilities to use leading practices ensuring... MORE

U.S. Navy Lt. Jonathan Carmack, head of Naval Health Clinic Charleston’s Staff, Education and Training Department, inspects a mock patient and its surroundings for potential hazards in NHCC’s “Room of Errors,” Mar. 16, 2018. The room was designed with purposely planted examples of hazards which could cause harm to patients or put their privacy at risk as part of Patient Safety Awareness Week, a national campaign which ran March 11-17.