Is your hospital as safe as your bank?...Time to ask your board.

The market forces, governance shortfalls, and a crisis of values that have led to the global financial collapse in 2009 have a frighteningly similar pattern to the collapse of hospital quality that has led to a crisis in patient care. We have stated that you cannot defy the business laws of gravityVthat quality, cost, value, speed, and trust are intrinsically interlocked and tightly coupled. Perhaps the most important of these is trust. When we compare our financial collapse to our patient safety crisis, there are striking similarities.