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Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 10-16, 2024
21st Annual Conference Call for Sponsorships 21st Annual Conference Call for Speakers - Meet the 2023 Winter Speak-Up! Award Winners!
The Spring 2024 Speak-UP! Award Period is Currently Open for Nominations
- Pulse CPSEA’s Family-Centered Patient Advocacy Course
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Patient Safety Awareness Week: March 10-16, 2024 |
In recognition, the Center for Patient Safety is encouraging the acknowledgment and celebration of efforts to improve safe care throughout healthcare. We invite you to celebrate and raise awareness!
The Center for Patient Safety (CPS) supports a global campaign for Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by IHI. The theme chosen by the patient safety experts at CPS for this year is Safer Together, emphasizing the importance of safety among the entire team, from the care providers to our support staff to our patients and their families.
For effective, safe care, we must be able to provide care in a kind and collaborative environment. We encourage you to find ways to engage everyone in the conversation. Encourage patients and family members to be involved in the care process and ask, “How can we work together to make my care safer?” Because we are all safer when we work together. The items and recommendations contained within the Toolkit are suggestions only. We encourage you to find ways to celebrate and raise awareness that will work best for your organization. Don’t attempt too much. Keep it fun and allow it to be an opportunity to showcase your organization’s patient safety efforts to employees and your community. |
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| 21st Annual Conference Call for Sponsorships |
We are pleased to invite interested sponsors to support the WPSC’s 21st annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference. This annual event brings together healthcare leaders, advocates, and patients concerned with the critical topic of patient safety. This year’s virtual conference is ½ days on October 15 & 16 and continues a fantastic Pacific NW partnership with the Oregon Patient Safety Commission and the Health Quality BC. The virtual format and regional approach registered over 500 in 2023 and attracted an incredible lineup of speakers!
Sponsorship information is available here.
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Thank you to WSHA who is leading the way for this year’s sponsorship! |
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21st Annual Conference Call for Speakers VIRTUAL CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 15th – 16th, 2024 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Pacific Time
SPEAKER Application DEADLINE: June 30, 2024
Please submit an application HERE to present. Information is available on the conference website.
We are pleased to invite interested speakers to submit proposals for presentations at our 21st annual patient safety conference.
We encourage proposals from across the care spectrum and strongly encourage patients and family members to submit proposals about their experiences. This year’s conference continues our regional collaboration between Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
Past attendees have requested presentations describing practices, ideas and activities they can apply at their jobs. Example topics include, but are not limited to: -
Patient and Family Engagement: Novel and successful ways to partner with patients, families and care partners in all aspects of care design, delivery, and operations.
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Safety Within Systems: How should safety and quality be structured within organizations to survive organizational factors like leadership change, staff turnover, mergers and acquisitions, and external disturbances from societal events and climate change?
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Innovative and Equitable Patient Safety Practices: New methods, approaches and ideas to improve patient safety and equitable care with regards to race, ethnicity, and social determinants.
- Technology: Applications of artificial intelligence. What is its impact on safety?
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Collaboration on a Community Level: Collaborating with communities and each other to improve patient safety beyond the four walls of our healthcare institutions.
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Meet the 2023 Winter Speak-Up! Award Winners! |
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The Spring 2024 Speak-UP! Award Period is Currently Open for Nominations |
The next round for the WPSC Speak-Up! Award is taking nominations for the Spring 2024 award. The nomination deadline is May 3rd.
Nominations may be made on the Speak-UP! Award page.
This is a great way to recognize staff and Washington healthcare organizations for the fantastic work they are doing. It is open to clinical and non-clinical employees/team members from all Washington healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, pharmacies, long term care (e.g., skilled nursing facilities & assisted living facilities), clinics and physician offices to name some examples. There are three 2024 Awards. Nomination due dates are:
– May 3, 2024 – August 30, 2024 – December 27, 2024
For more information go to the Speak-Up! Award website or contact Steve Levy, Executive Director, WPSC at slevy@qualityhealth.org.
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Pulse CPSEA’s Family-Centered Patient Advocacy Course |
Leading patient safety group offers intensive 2-day course
Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy is proud to announce that it will hold a 2-
day intensive training course, “Family-Centered Patient Advocacy” on March 14-15, 2024.
The course will be held in person in Plainview, Long Island, NY. All are welcome — from Board-
Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA), who will receive 14 CEs for attending, to individuals just
wanting to support their families in getting safer medical care.
“Medical error is the third-highest cause of premature death in this country,” says Pulse
President Ilene Corina, BCPA, “but there are many things we can do to reduce the risks and get
better outcomes from our care. Those attending the course will learn how to do that.” Want to know more? Information and registration at
https://www.pulsecenterforpatientsafety.org/fcpatraining
Media enquiries:
David Halperin: patientsafetynews@gmail.com
or Ilene Corina: info@pulsecpsea.org or (516) 579-4711 |
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One of many groups of former FCPA training graduates |
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