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Every Patient Counts

Every Patient Counts involves hospitals across the state who are engaging in formal programs to achieve quality and safety improvements and to share their results with other hospitals.

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Why We are Doing It

In 2008, the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) invited HSSC to collaborate on Every Patient Counts, a statewide partnership to advance patient safety and quality health care. Under the direction of SCHA Senior Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety Rick Foster, Every Patient Counts has four aims:  

•    to help hospitals implement a culture of safety.
•    to support hospitals in their adoption of evidence-based medicine.
•    to prevent adverse events.
•    to promote patient-centered care.

Hospitals across the state engage in formal programs to achieve quality and safety improvements and to share their results with other hospitals.

Every Patient Counts is an ideal partnership for HSSC, as hospitals play a critical role in accelerating the translation of research from university labs to patient bedsides and physician offices. They also are consumers of new technologies, drugs, and processes that HSSC and its collaborators create. The relationship also creates new opportunities for better, safer health care for SCHA member hospitals.

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