The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare (JCC), an organization geared toward improving the safety and quality of the nation’s healthcare, initiated a wrong site surgery project in 2009 to help prevent surgeries involving the:
- wrong patient;
- wrong procedure;
- wrong site; and
- wrong side of the body.
The short video features a panel of experts in the health care field and explains the need for improved surgical care, as well as a greater emphasis on the patient’s needs.
In the video, Richard J. Webster, R.N. and Vice President for Perioperative Services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, succinctly states the bottom line: “It’s our job as health care providers to be advocates for these patients and to just ensure that they receive the most appropriate care. It’s the right thing to do.”
If doctors have failed to live up their duty of care for you, you’ll want to talk to a Georgia medical malpractice firm about filing a wrong site injury negligence lawsuit to hold the liable parties responsible for their painful mistakes.
Contacting a Georgia Medical Malpractice Firm
If you are the victim of someone else’s negligence or carelessness, such as when you’ve undergone a surgical error, you have certain rights guaranteed by law. To help you understand these rights and seek the compensation you may be eligible for to help get your life back in order, contact the Atlanta Law Offices of Sheryl L. Burke for a no-cost consultation on your injury case – 1-404-842-7838.
