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 Root-Cause Analysis (Twentieth Anniversary of Colombini Accident)
In order to recognize MRI safety weaknesses at any given site, you have to study how MRI accidents and injuries occur. Anybody with a printout of accreditation standards can be a mock-surveyor and run through a checklist, but does that person know if the checklist really represents MRI safety risks, or just check-boxes? This year, […]
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Hello, and welcome to Gilk Radiology Consultants (GRC)! Our company is dedicated to helping improve both patient access to MRI, and the safety of MRI, and we do this through a variety of ways. We help MRI providers (with education, training, facility planning, and policy / practice review). We help legal and insurance professionals (with […]
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