Examples of Quality
What We're Doing to Make Patients Safer
Scripps staff and physicians at all levels are working each day to make patients safer. From little things, like double- and triple-checking i.d. bracelets, to big things like standardizing cancer pathology reports, a lot goes on behind the scenes that significantly improves care quality.
The following story details one example where a sterilization team at Scripps La Jolla improved instrument sterilization so much that other hospitals wanted to know how they did it: