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Another Fantastic Conference Program Coming in October!
The 21st Annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference program "Safe Patient Care: It Takes All of Us" Focuses on what we can do together for safety. The conference keynote will be given by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, one of the foremost voices in the medical world today, speaking passionately about the doctor-patient relationship.
Hear about best practices to prevent, measure, and address uncivil behavior and to create healthy workplaces. We'll follow up on last year's AI presentation and see how artificial intelligence will affect the health system, particularly around physician and patient behavior and their interactions. Learn how a new generation of physicians are starting to consider the old way of performing gender surgery on babies a mistake and definitely not patient-centered care. It's about human rights and who should decide things about their bodies. Have an opportunity to interact with the Leapfrog Group's Senior Vice President of Health Care Ratings who will lead a transparent and frank discussion about its merits and shortfalls, and entertain suggestions for improvement.
Visit the 21st Annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference website here for more information about this year's conference. Registration opens in June. |
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month |
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Since its inception in 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been a cornerstone of addressing the challenges faced by millions of Americans living with mental health conditions. Although May is winding down, the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) is dedicated to eradicating stigma, extending support, fostering public education and advocating for policies that prioritize the well-being of individuals and families affected by mental illness all year round.
We encourage you to join NAMI in fostering open dialogues, cultivating empathy and understanding. Check out NAMI’s Take the Moment campaign and its array of signature programs. Also, take a look at the WPSC’s Mental Health resources within the Health Equity, Stigma & Bias resources web site.
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Advocate for the NPSB Bill - Get Tips and Tools in Upcoming Webinar To gain cosponsors for the National Patient Safety Board Act (H.R. 7591), we encourage each member of the Coalition to request a virtual meeting with a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee from your state and ask them to cosponsor H.R. 7591.
In this linked document, you will find the House Energy and Commerce Committee members, emails to their health staff, as well as a phone number to contact the office.
We have already paired specific committee members with the Coalition list. If you have concerns about the assigned person you are supposed to reach out to, please let us know, and we can assign other members for you to contact.
Please email the specific staff member and meet with your designated office by Friday, June 21. For those of you that have not engaged with Capitol Hill staff before, we will be holding an Advocacy 101 webinar on Tuesday, June 4 at 1:00 p.m. (ET) to walk through the advocacy campaign and talking points. If you would like to attend this webinar, click HERE.
ERIC and JHF are always willing to be a part of virtual Capitol Hill meetings, depending on our availability, so please email Christina Strogis at cstrogis@eric.org or Carolyn Byrnes from JHF at byrnes@jhf.org if you would like someone to attend the meeting with you.
Below is the email language for requesting a meeting. Please CC Christina Strogis and Carolyn Byrnes on the email request. If you do not hear from the staffer in a few days or they are out of office, please ping them again. If the staffer is no longer with the office, please email cstrogis@eric.org, who will connect you with the new staffer.
Email Template: Subject: Request for meeting on healthcare bill H.R. 7591 Hello [Legislator's name],
[Name of Organization] is a part of a large coalition supporting the National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) Act (H.R. 7591) led by Reps. Nanette Barragan and Michael Burgess that would create an independent federal board housed within the Department of Health and Human Services, and would model the efforts of Commercial Aviation Safety Team within health care. The NPSB, with its nonpunitive, multidisciplinary Research and Development Team, would complement existing agencies in monitoring and anticipating patient safety events with artificial intelligence, provide expertise to study the causes of errors, create recommendations and solutions to prevent future harms, and leverage existing systems to bring key learnings into practice. The NPSB would guarantee a data-driven, scalable approach to preventing and reducing patient safety events in healthcare settings—and will save lives.
We would love the opportunity to meet with you virtually on this legislation. Do any of the below options work for you? [include your availability to meet] Respectfully, [Your name]
Items Needed for Meeting Follow Up -
Once you have met with the office, please include any notes on the meeting in this Google Doc for the Coalition.
- ERIC/PRHI staff will work with you to send a follow-up email to the office.
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Conference Opening Keynote Speaker and More! |
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is one of the foremost voices in the medical world today, shining an unflinching light on the realities of healthcare and speaking passionately about the doctor-patient relationship. She writes about medicine and the doctor-patient connection. Her writing appears in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Atlantic, as well as the Lancet and the New England
Journal of Medicine. Here books include: - When We Do Harm; A Doctor Confronts Medical Error
- What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
- What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
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Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
- Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
- Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Ofri is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2023 Davies Scholar Award from the American College of Physicians, the 2022 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from the Gold Foundation, the 2020 Global Listening Legend Award, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters. She has received the McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association for “preeminent contributions to medical communication.” Workplace Civility - Dr. Cynthia Clark
Dr. Clark’s ground-breaking work on fostering civility and healthy work environments has brought national and international attention to the controversial issues of incivility in academic and work environments around the globe. Her theory-driven interventions, empirical measurements, theoretical models, and reflective assessments provide best practices to prevent, measure, and address uncivil behavior and to create healthy workplaces.
Dr. Clark’s current research includes preparing nurses to address incivility in the practice setting; bridging the education-practice gap to create positive work cultures, designing and testing empirical instruments to measure and address incivility; integrating civility into nursing curricula; and conducting intervention studies to measure the effectiveness of cognitive rehearsal to address incivility and protect patient safety. Intersex, Medical Ethics - Lizzie Reis
According to statistics cited by the U.N., .05 to 1.7 percent of the world’s population is intersex, defined as having external or internal sexual organs that are not clearly male or female. As a matter of course, doctors in the past performed surgery on babies, ostensibly so that they would live a “normal” life. In the 1950s psychologist John Money at Johns Hopkins University said the best time to deal with this is at infancy, when the gender has not emerged, and babies are malleable. You could change their genitals and later on give them hormones so you could raise them in the gender that you thought was the most appropriate and everything would be fine. But it didn’t always turn out fine.
Elizabeth Reis, Ph.D., professor at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York where she teaches courses on Medical Ethics; Reproductive Technologies; Gender, Sex, and Bioethics; and Disability Studies will present on how a new generation of physicians are starting to consider the old way of doing things “a mistake” and definitely not patient-centered care. It's about human rights and who should decide things about their bodies. |
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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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Upcoming Bree Collaborative Events |
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| Learning Lab: Addressing Food Insecurity in Washington State
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Title: Learning Lab: Addressing Food Insecurity in Washington State Time: Tuesday, June 25th from 12-1:45 PM PT (virtual) Cost: Free
Continuing Education: Individuals who attend the event are eligible to receive continuing medical education (CME) and Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE)
Description: Join the Foundation for Health Care Quality and the Bree Collaborative on Tuesday, June 25th from 12-1:45 PM PT to engage in a learning lab! While Washington is well known in part for its agricultural industry, many communities across the state need help accessing nutritious food. This session will begin with an overview of the current state of food insecurity in Washington. Then, we will hear from panelists representing the Washington State Department of Agriculture, DSHS, DOH, and a community group to discuss strategies they are implementing to combat food insecurity and how we can foster collective change to achieve equitable access to nutritious food for Washingtonians. After the panelist presentation, there will be time for question and answer, followed by dedicated time to connect and discuss with peers to share your experience, hear from others, and discuss the next steps with peers across the healthcare ecosystem.
Speakers: Katie Rains, Food Policy Advisor to the Director, Washington State Department of Agriculture
Babs Roberts, Director of the Community Services Division, Economic Services Administration, Department of Social and Health Services Lauren Lubowicki, Retail Health Care Specialist, Fruit and Vegetable Incentives Program, Prevention and Community Health, Washington State Department of Health
Felicidad Smith, MPH, Communication and Resolution Program Manager, Washington Patient Safety Coalition [She will be speaking with Lauren on DOH perspective] Adele Eslinger, Program Coordinator, United General
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) and the Foundation for Healthcare Quality. The WSMA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The WSMA designates this live activity for 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Individuals must attend the live event to attend to receive CME. Individuals who watch the recording will not be eligible for the CE credit. |
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