ECRI Acquires The Just Culture Company to Transform Healthcare Patient and Workforce Safety
ECRI Acquires The Just Culture Company to Transform Healthcare Patient and Workforce Safety
"Alarming rates of preventable harm are inflicted on patients every day. By offering Just Culture programs throughout ECRI's global network, we can prevent harm before it happens," said PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Dec. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ECRI, a global nonprofit organization improving the quality and safety of healthcare, announced today it acquired The Just Culture Company, which specializes in transforming workforce culture in high-risk industries.
宾夕法尼亚州普利茅斯会议，2024年12月2日/PRNewswire/ - ECRI，一个全球性非营利组织，致力于提高医疗保健的质量和安全性，今天宣布收购专注于转变高风险行业工作文化的The Just Culture Company。
The Just Culture Company assists organizations in deploying a balanced system of accountability between the organization and employee that fosters a fair, learning culture – referred to as a "just culture" – by implementing its proprietary algorithm through advisory services, educational programs and coaching.
The Just Culture Company协助组织部署一种在组织和员工之间实现均衡责任体系的算法，促进一种公平、学习型文化 - 即被称为"公正文化"，通过咨询服务、教育项目和辅导实施其专有算法。
"Just culture" is an essential component of ECRI's Total System Safety (TSS) approach to drive efficiencies, improve healthcare and reduce preventable patient harm by designing systems for impact and sustainability. Through the acquisition of The Just Culture Company, ECRI now operates a leading cultural transformation organization.
“公正文化”是ECRI全系统安全（TSS）方法的重要组成部分，旨在通过设计影响力和可持续性的系统，提高效率，改善医疗保健，并减少可预防患者伤害。通过收购The Just Culture Company，ECRI现在运营一家领先的文化转型组织。
"Alarming rates of preventable harm are inflicted on patients every day. By offering Just Culture programs throughout ECRI's global network, we can prevent harm before it happens," said Marcus Schabacker, PhD, president and CEO of ECRI. "To create lasting change and improve patient and workforce safety, we must shift from evaluating accidents and errors after they've taken place, to designing systems and cultures that prevent harm from happening in the first place."
“每天都有令人担忧的可预防伤害发生在患者身上。通过在ECRI的全球网络中提供公正文化项目，我们可以在事情发生之前阻止伤害，” ECRI总裁兼首席执行官Marcus Schabacker博士表示。“要创造持久变革，提高患者和工作人员的安全性，我们必须从事故和错误发生后的评估转变为设计能够预防伤害发生的系统和文化。”
The Just Culture Company has partnered with healthcare providers, health departments and insurers to assess and improve workforce culture, from C-Suite to frontline staff, through a holistic systems-based approach.
The Just Culture Company已与医疗保健提供者、卫生部门和保险人合作，通过一种全面的系统为基础的方法，评估和改善工作文化，从高管到一线员工。
"Our just culture model is founded on the principle that workforce learning, holistic system design, mentoring, and coaching are stronger interventions than the 'shame and blame' culture that's so prolific in healthcare," said David Marx, CEO of The Just Culture Company. "Errors must be recognized and addressed in a way that become learning opportunities for all the people in the system."
“我们的公正文化模式建立在这样一个原则上，即工作人员学习、全面系统设计、指导和辅导比在医疗保健领域盛行的‘指责与责备’文化更为有力。"The Just Culture Company的首席执行官David Marx表示。“错误必须以一种成为整个系统中所有人学习机会的方式得到认可和解决。”
The significance of just culture in the healthcare workforce was highlighted in the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure taking effect in 2025. The measure requires hospitals to demonstrate they have established a culture and structure that prioritizes patient safety, specifically referencing just culture in the domain about strategic planning and organizational policy.
2025年生效的CMS患者安全结构指标凸显了卫生保健工作人员中正义文化的重要性。该指标要求医院展示他们已建立了优先考虑患者安全的文化和结构，特别是在战略规划和组织政策领域中参考了正义文化。
"Too many healthcare staff, through no fault of their own, are operating in poorly designed systems, with hierarchical cultures that prevent staff from speaking up about safety hazards and 'near misses,'" explained Schabacker. "Not only does this lead to more incidents of patient harm, but it fuels high rates of burnout and stress among overworked healthcare personnel. We can't train our way to improved safety and quality. Only through a cultural transformation can we adopt a completely new way of supporting and collaborating with our healthcare workforce."
“许多卫生保健工作人员由于系统设计不善、存在阻碍员工就安全隐患和'近失误'发声的等级文化，而不是员工自身的过错，”Schabacker解释道。“这不仅导致更多患者受到伤害，还加剧了医护人员的疲劳和压力。我们无法通过培训提升安全和质量。只有通过文化转变，我们才能采用全新的支持和协作方式，与我们的卫生保健工作人员合作。”
According to Schabacker, joining forces with The Just Culture Company is a milestone that reflects ECRI's strategy to identify and mitigate the root causes of harm and inefficiency in healthcare.
根据Schabacker的说法，与Just Culture Company联手是ECRI旨在识别和减轻卫生保健领域伤害和低效根本原因的战略的一个里程碑。
"As the industry has evolved, we have continued to launch data-informed, evidence-based solutions that address the systemic failures that are causing the most harm – areas where healthcare leaders have struggled to create lasting change despite valiant efforts," said Schabacker. "We are thrilled to add this on-demand solution and strong brand to ECRI's portfolio to accelerate our mission to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally."
“随着行业的演变，我们继续推出以数据为基础、循证的解决方案，解决导致最严重伤害的系统性失败，这些是卫生保健领导者尽管努力卓绝仍难以持久改变的领域，”Schabacker说。“我们很高兴将这一按需解决方案和强大品牌加入ECRI的投资组合，加速我们在全球推动有效、循证卫生保健的使命。”
This latest acquisition comes four years after ECRI's move to acquire the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) to help healthcare partners tackle one of the leading causes of preventable harm: medication errors.
此次最新收购是ECRI四年前收购安全用药实践研究所(ISMP)之后的举措，旨在帮助卫生保健伙伴解决可预防伤害的主要原因之一：药物错误。
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ECRI is an independent, nonprofit organization improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care across all healthcare settings. With a focus on technology evaluation and safety, ECRI is trusted by healthcare leaders and agencies worldwide. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO is a federally certified Patient Safety Organization as designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2020, ECRI acquired ISMP to create one of the largest healthcare quality and safety institutions in the world. Visit .
ECRI是一个独立的非营利组织，致力于提高所有医疗保健环境中的安全性、质量和成本效益。ECRI专注于技术评估和安全性，在全球范围内受到医疗领导者和机构的信任。ECRI被美国医疗研究与质量机构指定为基于证据的实践中心。ECRI与安全用药实践研究所PSO是美国卫生与人类服务部指定的联邦认证患者安全组织。2020年，ECRI收购了ISMP，打造了世界上最大的医疗保健质量和安全机构之一。请访问。
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The Just Culture Company helps organizations across industries create accountable, safe, supportive cultures. For 30 years, they have helped transform work systems that erroneously demand perfection from fallible human beings. CEO and founder David Marx worked as an engineer and human factors leader in the aviation industry, where he established an award-winning error investigation process in use by airlines around the world to this day. He led a research and consulting practice focused on the management of human error through the integration of systems engineering, human factors and the law. He advised the Federal Aviation Administration's Human Factors Research Program and the NASA Space Shuttle Program. He developed novel risk modeling methods that have been used to model risk in high-consequence industries worldwide. The Just Culture Company has helped healthcare institutions and regulatory agencies reduce the risk of iatrogenic patient harm. In the area of system design, David Marx's novel error investigation process has been used to model and mitigate risks from wrong site surgery to medication errors.
Just Culture Company帮助各行业的组织建立负责任、安全、支持性文化。30年来，他们帮助改变了错误地要求不可行完美的工作系统。首席执行官兼创始人David Marx曾在航空业担任工程师和人因领导者，建立了一套备受全球航空公司推崇的错误调查流程。他领导了专注于通过系统工程、人因和法律整合管理人为错误的研究和咨询实践。他为美国联邦航空管理局的人因研究项目和NASA航天飞机计划提供建议。他开发了新颖的风险建模方法，已被全球高风险行业用来模拟风险。Just Culture Company帮助医疗机构和监管机构降低人为医疗危害的风险。在系统设计领域，David Marx的新颖错误调查流程已被用来模拟和降低从手术错误到药物错误的风险。
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