In Search of Water: South Carolina Hospitals Apply High Reliability Thinking to Protect Patients in the Midst of Flooding

摘要

"Water water every where, nor any drop to drink. " In his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge used these famous words to describe the agony of thirst felt by desperate sailors who could not find fresh water. That agony echoed across time as South Carolina recovered from the recent floods.