National Patient
Safety Foundation
268 Summer St.
6th Floor
Boston, MA 02210
Phone: (617) 391-9900
Fax: (617) 391-9999
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Keeping patients safe in challenging times requires real-world strategies and tools, new thinking, and vigilance across healthcare.
From adversity comes the spark of innovation and renewed commitment – a mindset at the heart of this year’s Congress, offering highly focused programs designed to speak directly to today’s critical patient safety imperatives.
Congress Highlights- Lucian Leape Institute members and authors of the IOM report “To Err is Human” review a decade’s progress and look to the future. Plenary moderated by Janet Corrigan, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum
- Leadership Day, an interactive pre-Congress executive-level event hosted and facilitated by leaders in healthcare, including Gregg Meyer, MD, SVP for Quality and Patient Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital and Richard Bohmer, MD, Harvard Business School
- Lucian Leape, MD, David Lawrence, MD, CEO (retired), Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, join forces to present the patient safety imperative for healthcare reform
- Julianne Morath, RN, MS, Chief Quality and Safety Officer at Vanderbilt Medical Center and Paul O’Neill, former Chairman and CEO of Alcoa and 72nd Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, will discuss the integration of joy and meaning in work and workforce safety
- Paul O’Neill and David Lawrence will also hold a unique interactive session providing views on the past decade in patient safety and a review of transformative work at Alcoa
- Breakfast Roundtables with distinguished members of the Lucian Leape Institute
- Alan Aviles, President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, will discuss how a resource-challenged system has become a beacon for patient safety
- Master story-teller Kevin Carroll on enriching and enlivening work lives
NPSF News Items:
Lucian Leape Institute Thought Leaders Define Strategies for Patient Safety
The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation has identified five strategic concepts designed to accelerate the integration of critical patient safety imperatives into the fabric of health care. More>
 New Ambulatory Stand Up For Patient Safety Program®
The National Patient Safety Foundation® (NPSF) has announced the launch of the Ambulatory Stand Up for Patient Safety Program. The program provides comprehensive, step-by-step tools and resources for developing and sustaining a patient safety program in the outpatient care setting. More >
Report Estimates Cost of Low Health Literacy Between $106-$236 Billion Dollars Annually
A report released from the University of Connecticut states that the cost of low health literacy to the United States economy is in the range of $106 billion to $236 billion annually. According to the report, Low Health Literacy: Implications for National Health Policy, the savings that could be achieved by improving health literacy translates into enough funds to insure every one of the more than 47 million persons who lacked coverage in the United States in 2006, according to recent Census Bureau estimates. More>
About NPSF:
The National Patient Safety Foundation is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that has been diligently pursuing one mission since its founding in 1997 – to improve the safety of patients. A decade later, NPSF remains the sole organization in the field with this singular focus.
NPSF also occupies a unique position in this field by virtue of its inclusive, multi-stakeholder approach. From the composition of its Board to the structure of its programs, NPSF fosters collaboration on the issue of patient safety.
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NPSF Issues New Universal Patient Compact In a concerted, nationwide effort to encourage and strengthen collaboration between patients, families, and their healthcare providers, NPSF has introduced The Universal Patient Compact: Principles for Partnership. The Compact is intended to create a clear understanding between the patient and the entire healthcare team about how they will work together, and defines principles that are integral to providing a care process that is truly patient-and-family-centered. For more information, please click here.
 Patient Safety Awareness Week
The National Patient Safety Foundation celebrated a successful Patient Safety Awareness Week on March 8-14, 2009. To learn more about this year’s event, please click here.
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NPSF Leadership Fellowship Scholarship Application Deadline Extended:
NPSF will provide up to two partial scholarships to individuals from organizations with financial needs and who demonstrate a strong commitment to improving patient safety. Apply now or nominate colleagues before the deadline: March 16, 2009 MORE >
NPSF gratefully acknowledges the support of its founding sponsors: American Medical Association
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