Quality and Patient Safety 

Quality and Patient Safety

Our Vision — to be remembered by each patient as providing the care and compassion we want for our families and ourselves — is central to the premise that Palmetto Health's responsibility to each patient is to provide the highest standard of quality care possible, focusing on patient safety, striving to reduce patient errors, and using the highest level of evidence-based knowledge possible.

Patients and physicians can look to our performance data to see that the culture of quality being developed within Palmetto Health is showing strong results.

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Dr. Don Berwick, CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, gives high praise to Palmetto Health's outstanding results in mortality reduction at a recent national conference:

  • "We should celebrate the kinds of successes I told you about at the beginning of my talk and we should never, never let up on the kinds of achievements that Palmetto, Henry Ford and Denver Health are achieving."
  • "The good news is that we can help, we can help for sure, we can help with exactly that same talent and skill and devotion and leadership and commitment that we see at Seton, Palmetto, Henry Ford and the like."