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Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW), an initiative from the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is designed to raise patient safety awareness among healthcare providers and consumers. This year, PSAW is March 11-17. It’s a great time to celebrate successes and re-focus on patient safety opportunities in your organization. The Center encourages providers and consumers to obtain information about patient safety issues. Below are highlights of Patient Safety Awareness Week activities.

Take advantage of the following resources and conferences to help launch a successful campaign! The Center’s highly anticipated Patient Safety Toolkit will be available for download by CPS Subscribers.

Join us on social media and check out these patient safety resources and tips we’re sharing during #PSAW2018!

Patient Safety Forum, March 14, 2018

Everyday across the country, healthcare is provided in many clinical settings and environments.  Likewise, the healthcare landscape is complicated as it evolves at an ever-quickening pace with new specialties, titles and tools.  Coupled with the growing demands placed on clinicians and healthcare leaders, how do we ensure the safety of our patients?  Join us for this collaborative opportunity to learn with other providers across the continuum of care how patient safety can be improved.
Added Bonus! All attendees of the forum will become a Subscriber to CPS’s online resource center, which provides toolkits, special previews to upcoming events, and a community forum. Find out more about becoming a subscriber!

Learn more about the Forum

Second Victim Experience, March 19, 2018

Most health care providers adjust well to the multitude of demands encountered during an unexpected or traumatic clinical event. Providers often have strong emotional defenses that carry them through and let them “get the job done.” Yet sometimes the emotional aftershock (or stress reaction) can be difficult. Signs and symptoms of this emotional aftershock may last a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or longer.

Added Bonus! All attendees of the workshop will become a Subscriber to CPS’s online resource center, which provides toolkits, special previews to upcoming events, and a community forum. Find out more about becoming a subscriber!

Learn more about the Second Victim Workshop

The CPS Patient Safety Improvement Approach

The Center for Patient Safety believes every patient safety improvement journey includes an evaluation of your current culture. It’s important to use meaningful data to understand how staff perceive the organization’s approach to patient care. Our bundled approach gives you peace of mind that you’re working with the patient safety experts – and we want YOU to be successful!

Step 1: CPS administers a survey to your staff and provides a detailed interpretation of your results.
Step 2: We work closely with you to develop your action plans and next steps.
Step 3: Our work continues with you over the next six months to a year to provide education and training, workshops, resources and tools. We support you in reaching your goals!
Learn more about the CPS Patient Safety Approach through Culture Change

pso-whatyoushouldknow The Center for Patient Safety is hosting a series of free upcoming webinars to share information and answer questions on how joining a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) can help you improve patient safety at your organization. Each webinar is available for providers in different healthcare settings, including medical offices, ASCs, LTC, EMS, and home care. A hospital-specific webinar was held in April but will be available again in the Fall. Contact the Center for more details.

Each webinar will help organizations and providers:

learn the benefits of joining a PSO
learn how joining a PSO can support your patient safety efforts
learn how PSO protections can apply to your organization

Medical Clinics and Ambulatory Care
5/19/16 from 12-1pm Central REGISTER

This webinar is open to healthcare professionals in medical offices, physician groups, and ASCs with a desire to improve patient safety and reduce patient risk, including professionals working in quality, risk, patient safety, quality improvement, and legal staff, executive leaders, and outside counsel and consultants for medical offices, ASCs or health systems.

Long Term Care
6/9/16 from 12-1pm Central REGISTER

This webinar is open to healthcare professionals in LTC with a desire to improve patient safety and reduce patient risk, including professionals working in quality, risk, patient safety, quality improvement, and legal staff, executive leaders, and outside counsel and consultants for long term care or health systems.

Emergency Medical Services
6/16/16 from 12-1pm Central REGISTER

This webinar is open to healthcare professionals in EMS with a desire to improve patient safety and reduce patient risk, including chiefs, managers, patient safety leaders, and legal staff, executive leaders, and outside counsel and consultants for EMS.

Home Care
9/8/16 from 12-1pm Central REGISTER

This webinar is open to healthcare professionals in home care (home health, hospice, home and community-based services and private duty) with a desire to improve patient safety and reduce patient risk, including professionals working in quality, risk, patient safety, quality improvement, and legal staff, executive leaders, and outside counsel and consultants for home care.

Illinois surveyors are finding lapses at same day surgery centers throughout the state as they, along with other states, continue to crack down on infection control practices in ambulatory settings in response to a 2008 Hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas believed to be caused by unsafe clinic practices.

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PSO Case Law: Ungurian v. Beyzman, et al., 2020 PA Super 105:

Joint Commission New Sentinel Event Alert 61: Managing the Risks of Direct Oral Anticoagulants:

CPS Safety Watch/Alert – Culture Can Improve the Control of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms:

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