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				 Dr. James L. Holly has been nominated for  the 2011 John M. Eisenberg Individual Achievement Award for Patient Safety and  Quality.   
  The patient safety awards program, launched  in 2002 by NQF and The Joint Commission, honors John M. Eisenberg, M.D.,  M.B.A., former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  (AHRQ).  Dr. Eisenberg was one of the founding leaders of NQF and sat on  its Board of Directors. In his roles both as AHRQ administrator and chair  of the federal government's Quality Inter-Agency Coordination Task Force, he  was a passionate advocate for patient safety and health care quality and  personally led AHRQ's grant program to support patient safety research. 
Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks  to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other  stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to  excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value.  The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 16,000 health care  organizations and programs in the United States, including nearly 9,000  hospitals and home care organizations, and more than 6,200 other health care  organizations that provide long term care, behavioral health care, laboratory  and ambulatory care services. In addition, The Joint Commission also provides  certification of more than 600 disease-specific care programs, primary stroke  centers, and health care staffing services. An independent, not-for-profit  organization, The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest  standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Learn more about The  Joint Commission at www.jointcommission.org. 
The mission of the National Quality Forum  is to improve the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities  and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards  for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the  attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.   NQF, a non-profit organization (qualityforum.org) with diverse stakeholders  across the public and private health sectors, was established in 1999 and is  based in Washington, DC. 
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