A Chance to Come Together

Calendars are funny things. They're the same every year—January 1 through December 31—but they change every year, too. Thanksgiving is never on the same date twice in a row, for example, and every fourth year we add in an extra day in February just to make sure things balance out.

It's a happy circumstance, then, that our feature article on efforts to use collaborative processes to promote patient safety falls in the October issue of the Risk Management Reporter. October, after all, is the month of National Healthcare Quality Week (October 16 to 22, 2011) as well as the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management's annual conference (October...