Magnet Momentum: Creating a Culture of Safety

The past decade in health care has seen a remarkable focus and emphasis on improving quality outcomes, especially related to a culture of safe patient care. The risks to hospital patients are great, and the call to action for caregivers was sounded over a decade ago. The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 2000 report,1 “To Err is Human,” shocked the nation with its claim of 98,000 lives lost each year from medical error.