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GE Healthcare

Mike Swinford With a background in electrical engineering, Mike Swinford joined GE Healthcare’s Manufacturing Management Program in 1992. After working around the country and abroad in several of the company’s divisions, Swinford landed the job of company vice president and general manager, diagnostic imaging and asset management services, Milwaukee. 24×7 had the opportunity to ask […]

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Up Front: Advocating for Patient Safety

  In late June 2007, the Joint Commission announced its 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and Requirements that apply to the nearly 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited and certified health care organizations and programs. The development and annual updating of these goals is overseen by an expert panel that includes patient safety experts, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk […]

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