Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami the Hudson” flight of Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River saving 155 lives is shown, and Sullenberger describes a framework he used in dealing with the crisis that can be applied to healthcare. One example explains that the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville brought in a NASCAR pit crew chief to examine their operating room turnover and received "great suggestions" according to the Bob Brigham, COO at Mayo Clinic in Florida. "Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami" includes appearances with actor and patient safety advocate Dennis Quaid who shares how his twins accidentally twice received 1,000
Pollution of the Hudson River project is the most aggressive environmental effort ever proposed to clean up a river, and will cost GE about $460,000,000. In 2002, EPA announced a further of contaminated sediments in the upper Hudson River would be removed. GE began sediment dredging operations to clean up the PCBs on May 15, 2009. This stage (Phase One) of the cleanup was completed in October 2009, and was responsible for the removal of approximately of contaminated sediment, which was more than the targeted amount. Over 620 barges filled with sediment were transported to the processing facility on the Champlain Canal, and over 80