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Roadmap to Health Care Safety for Massachusetts.

May 3, 2023

Massachusetts Healthcare Safety and Quality Consortium. Boston, MA: Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety; April 2023.

Collective engagement and focus are required to attain large system change. This plan centers on five goals to improve patient safety in Massachusetts: leadership and culture, operations and engagement, patient and family support, workforce wellbeing, and measurement and transparency. The document provides guidance for implementation of strategies targeting each goal to generate sustainable improvements.

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