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Thai hospital officials to visit Mercy in Janesville

Add comment May 20th, 2008

More than 40 doctors and senior officials of Bangkok, Thailand’s Crown Prince Hospital Foundation will visit Mercy Hospital Janesville from 8 to 11 a.m. Thursday as part of a study of quality assurance and hospital services.

The Crown Prince Hospital Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve administration, clinical services and overall health care quality.

Mercy Health System is a 2007 winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award which measures efforts in leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce focus; process management, and results. The Crown Prince Hospital Foundation is trying to receive the Thailand Quality Award, the country’s equivalent of the Baldrige award.