Search Tag: Patient Safety Movement
Spotlight On: Sutter Health Fights Pneumonia One Toothbrush at a Time
2020 23 Apr
Pneumonia can be deadly in a hospital setting. Two main factors contribute to the approximately 20 percent mortality rate of this healthcare-associated infection (HAI). First, whatever condition brought the patient to the hospital in the first place has likely weakened them, making the patient more vulnerable to the illness. Plus, the germs that patients... Read more
2020 Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit
2020 01 Jul
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO COVID- 19 HEALTH CONCERNS. Find the Patient Safety Movement on Social Media Read more
Zoom On: Edwin Loftin
2019 28 May
Edwin Loftin, RN, MBA, NEA-BC, FACHE is the Senior Vice President of Integrated and Acute Care Services/CNO Parrish Healthcare. Mr Loftin is a progressive senior healthcare executive who cultivates a culture of healing and person and family-centred care. Mr Loftin led the medical centre’s efforts to become the first in the nation to earn The Joint... Read more
New hospital policies and procedures required for patient safety
2019 22 May
Eighteen Actionable Patient Safety Solutions are the key to zero preventable patient deaths in our hospitals. What are the patient safety processes that every hospital administrator and healthcare professional should adopt today to avoid preventable patient harm and death in hospitals? It’s an unfortunate fact of the medical profession... Read more
Hospitals in Taiwan make a commitment to eliminate preventable patient harm & death in hospitals
2019 29 Apr
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and the Taiwan Patient Safety Culture Club (TPSCC) announced today that 4 hospitals and 1 healthcare organization made a public commitment to helping eliminate preventable patient harm and death in hospitals by implementing the PSMF’s Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS). The commitments were made... Read more
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s Midyear Planning Meeting 2019
2019 17 Sep
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Achieving zero avoidable patient deaths by 2020
2019 22 Feb
The Patient Safety Foundation rounds up best practices at its annual congress The 2019 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit held in January presented best practices for preventing avoidable patient deaths and a guide to how hospitals can achieve this by 2020. I have just returned from the 7th Annual World Patient Safety,... Read more
Patient Safety Movement Announces 273,077 Lives Saved
2019 19 Jan
New Actionable Patient Safety Solution #17: Patient Safety Curriculum for Schools The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) announced today at the 7th Annual Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit that 90,146 lives were saved in 2018, thanks to the efforts of more than 4,710 hospitals committing to patient safety, and 89 healthcare... Read more
Person and family engagement
2018 07 Nov
The key to caring for the whole patient. Person and family engagement (PFE) has been called the blockbuster drug of the 21st century. How can hospitals implement engagement so that patients and families are partners in patient safety? What if I told you there is a new medicine that could accelerate medical error prevention, improve... Read more