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New AHRQ-sponsored “Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process” We Have a Bill to Create a National Patient Safety Board! - Pulse Center for Patient Safety, Education & Advocacy 2023 Symposium Registration Opens
Bree Recommendation Webinar: Hepatitis C Virus --- Creation to Implementation -
Art Speaks
- Here’s What to Tell Patients About Holiday Safety
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Happy Holidays! 2022 was the light at the end of the tunnel. Despite all the new bugs out there (it wouldn’t be healthcare without them), we end the year with a renewed sense of optimism and normality, and a yearning for the good old days of no traffic. Thank you, members, colleagues and communities for supporting the Coalition. We had a fantastic year. Some of our highlights include: - The 19th Annual NW Patient Safety Conference was our best.
- The Speak-Up! Award.
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The Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2022 legislation was introduced in the U.S. House.
- We brought awareness of mental health stigma and bias to the forefront and created a robust source of resources to address them.
Thank you outgoing Steering Committee Chair, Jonathan Stewart, BETA Healthcare Group, for his two years of leadership and guidance. We welcome Jessica Yanny, Swedish Medical Center, as our incoming Chair!
To those of you working over the holidays, thank you for your service. You are extraordinary. You bring patients and families joy, love, and hope when it is needed most. As we enter a new year, we hope to engage with more members of the community and build on the initiatives we have been working on, as well as create new ones.
Best wishes and Happy New Year! - Steve & Amelina |
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| New AHRQ-sponsored “Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process” |
Is your practice interested in improving the cancer diagnostic process for your patients who receive some or all of their care via telemedicine? AHRQ is recruiting practices for a free 18-month program to improve diagnostic verification, timeliness, and communication with patients. Practices will receive training and one-on-one expert coaching to implement sustainable improvements to effectively close the loop at critical points in the cancer diagnostic process. Learn more and sign up for an informational webinar on the program website: safetyprogram4telemedicine.org.
The program is free to participating practices, and practice staff may be eligible for continuing education units (CEUs), continuing medical education (CME) credits, and ABIM MOC points. The program consists of educational presentations about best practices to improve the diagnosis of breast, colorectal, and lung cancers in the telemedicine environment. Experts will deliver presentations in several ways to facilitate uptake by busy clinicians—live and recorded webinars, as well as written materials. Participants are asked to engage with the learning materials as well as with colleagues to push the practice overall toward improved verification, timeliness, and communication in cancer diagnosis.
Diagnostic Process Flyer |
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We Have a Bill to Create a National Patient Safety Board! |
U.S. Representative Nanette Barragán (D-CA) introduced bill H.R.9377 - The National Patient Safety Board Act, legislation to establish a National Patient Safety Board (NPSB), a nonpunitive, collaborative, independent home to address safety in health care modeled in part after the National Transportation Safety Board and the Commercial Aviation Safety Team. This landmark legislation is a critical step to improve safety for patients and healthcare providers by coordinating existing efforts within a single independent agency solely focused on addressing patient safety in health care. Here’s how to help. Read the press release here.
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| Pulse Center for Patient Safety, Education & Advocacy 2023 Symposium Registration Opens |
The Pulse Center for Patient Safety is hosting its Annual Symposium on March 15-16, 2023. The two-day virtual event will bring together patient safety experts, patient advocates and patients who are encouraged to come learn with their families. The theme is “The Landscape of Patient Safety: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going”. The speakers — all authorities in their fields — will address aspects of patient safety such as patients with disabilities, emerging from COVID, medications, simulations, and many more. The symposium’s keynote presenter will be Tejal Gandhi, Chief Safety and Transformation Officer at Press Ganey LLC, who will speak on “Emerging from COVID: Re-energizing Our Approaches to Achieving Zero Harm”. Registration and information is available HERE.
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Bree Recommendation Webinar: Hepatitis C Virus --- Creation to Implementation |
Please join the Bree Collaborative on Wednesday, January 18th, from 12-1 pm PST, as we celebrate the development of the Hepatitis C Virus Recommendation! REGISTER HERE.
During the webinar, a few of our dedicated workgroup members will speak about the opportunity for hepatitis C elimination, strategies to increase HCV treatment, and how members of our health ecosystem, like clinicians and public health agencies, can utilize the document to enact change. The full report can be accessed here. Want more information? Contact Emily Robson, Transformation and Community Partnerships Manager, Foundation for Health Care Quality
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Here is one of the art pieces called Black Sheep by Louie Gong.
Click HERE to view the entire catalog from the exhibition. |
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For the second year, WPSC’s Addressing Stigma & Bias Workgroup is featuring artwork as a powerful way to connect with patients’ experiences with health conditions. Our focus this year is mental illness & behavioral health.
Art is not only beautiful, it is a potent medium of expression. Evocative and compelling, it touches the soul and connects in a way no other medium can.
Featured artwork this year include art and a poem by PNW residents Louie Gong, Mahvish Naqvi, Munira Leslie Sinclair and Anita Sulaiman as well as a poem by model-turned actress and mental health advocate, Cara Delevingne. Big thank you to the artists for sharing their compelling pieces with us.
Click HERE to enjoy more art from the exhibition and get to the know the artists. |
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Here’s What to Tell Patients About Holiday Safety
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Education on holiday safety can be presented in a variety of ways, from posters and brochures in waiting rooms and triage areas to community presentations, says Cindy Hearrell, RN, BA, CEN, an injury prevention marketing assistant for Fallbrook (CA) Hospital. Click here to read more.
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