Cook County adopts GE patient safety system

Cook County Health & Hospitals System of Illinois, has joined GE’s patient safety organization (GE PSO), a system that seeks to improve patient safety by collecting and analyzing event data, pinpointing causal factors contributing to risk and fostering collaboration within a community to mitigate those risks.

Cook County Health, which serves more than 500,000 patients in and around Chicago, joins two hospitals in Illinois, one in Texas and 13 in Rhode Island that have also signed on with GE PSO.

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