{"id":947317,"date":"2026-05-09T01:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:54:28","slug":"aha-chair-authors-column-in-usa-today-insert-on-advancing-patient-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947317\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Chair authors column in USA Today insert on advancing patient safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futureofpersonalhealth.com\/patient-safety\/americas-hospitals-are-constantly-raising-the-bar-on-patient-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column\u00a0<\/a> by AHA Board Chair Marc Boom, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist, highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to raise the bar and embrace innovation to advance patient safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us entered healthcare because we felt a sacred call to help others,\u201d the column states. \u201cWe have a responsibility to keep our patients safe at every step. Whether someone\u2019s role is serving as a physician or nurse at the bedside, or hospital leadership shaping systemwide decisions, our goal is the same: deliver safe care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The column ran in a special insert on patient safety that was included in the May 8 edition of USA Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA Today published a column\u00a0 by AHA Board Chair Marc Boom, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-947317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116542129178102688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}