AHRA and Toshiba Announce Patient First Program
Improving patient care and safety in diagnostic imaging is an important issue to hospitals, physicians and administrators today. Helping to support this need, the AHRA has created the Patient First Program funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.
The Patient First Program will provide grants to hospitals to create programs, training and/or seminars to improve patient care and safety in CT, MR, Ultrasound, X-ray and X-ray Vascular diagnostic imaging and to develop best imaging practices to share with other hospitals.
“With hospitals being pressured to lower costs while continuing to provide the highest level of patient care, this type of program funding is more critical today than ever before,” said Edward J. Cronin, Jr., CAE and executive director, AHRA. “The Patient First grants will allow hospitals to fund important programs and training to improve the quality of care they offer.”
The AHRA will award three Patient First grants of $7,500. All eligible hospitals are encouraged to apply by completing an application at www.ahraonline.org or www.medical.toshiba.com. The deadline to apply is November 15, 2008.
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