The Checklist Manifesto was a nonfiction book by the surgeon and writer who practices general surgery at what facility?
The Checklist Manifesto The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a 2009 non-fiction book by Atul Gawande. It was released on December 22, 2009 through Metropolitan Books and focuses on the use of checklists in relation to several elements of daily and professional life. The book looks at the use of checklists in the business world and the medical profession, with Gawande examining how it could be used for greater efficiency, consistency and safety. Gawande stated he was inspired to write "The Checklist Manifesto" after reading a story about a young child who survived a fall into a frozen pond and discovering the physician who saved her relied heavily on checklists.
Loyola University Medical Center The Loyola University Medical Center is a quaternary-care system with a 61 acre main medical center campus in the western suburbs of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The medical center campus is located in Maywood, 13 mi west of the Chicago Loop and 8 mi east of Oak Brook. The heart of the medical center campus is Loyola University Hospital. Also on campus are the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center (now named for the late Cardinal Joseph Louis Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, who was a patient at the Cancer Center when he died in November 1996 from metastatic pancreatic cancer) Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the Stritch School of Medicine (named for Samuel Cardinal Stritch, a former Archbishop of Chicago) Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park, Illinois includes the 264-licensed-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Health and Fitness Center and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center. Loyola University Health System has been a member of Trinity Health since July 2011. The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy is a part of the Stritch School of Medicine.