It’s a rather remarkable turn-around story… For those who don’t know there’s a patient-safety organization, called The Leapfrog Group, that grades hospitals on their patient safety. Six years ago, in 2015, the JPS hospital (a county-owned hospital in Ft. Worth, TX) received a “D” grade on patient safety. This year, in 2021, the same hospital […]
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MRI Safety Committee Administration
One of the challenges with new standards is that your site may have to scramble to adapt. If the new standard requires, for example, an MRI Safety Committee with quarterly meetings, and your site doesn’t have available / willing staff to take on this additional burden, you’re dead-in-the-water, right? Not necessarily. Since (the radiology equivalent […]
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Gilk Radiology Consultants’ (GRC) founder, Tobias Gilk, is an internationally-acclaimed speaker on MRI safety subjects. He has presented at MRI manufacturers’ user group meetings, at international society meetings, conferences and trade shows, and at sponsored symposia. From 20-minute webinars, to ‘grand rounds’ presentations, to multi-day in-person seminars, Mr. Gilk has developed a reputation for delivering […]
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