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Posted September 26, 2007
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: News
Hospital-Library Program that Informs Consumers about Patient Safety Receives Continued Funding
CAPS part of collaborative effort to improve access to health information to the public.
Chicago, IL, September 13, 2007 — Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) is pleased to announce that a consumer-focused patient safety awareness program it helped initiate has received government funding for continued development.
The Partnering for Patient Empowerment through Community Awareness (PPECA) initiative represents an innovative collaboration among patient safety advocates, health sciences librarians, healthcare institutions, and public libraries. The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa in partnership with the University of Iowa College of Public Health and its Institute for Quality Healthcare, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC), Consumers Advancing Patient Safety and Zipperer Project Management (specializing in patient safety information projects), received National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region funding to launch Empowering Public Health/Patient Safety Outreach through Community Partnerships or "PPECA II."
"PPECA is the first model for building patient safety awareness through community partnerships involving consumers, a public library and a healthcare institution," said Susan E. Sheridan, MIM, MBA, CAPS Co-founder and President. "One of the goals of CAPS is education of both consumers and providers to increase awareness about the role patients and families can play in improving the safety of their own care, and we are pleased to be part of this program."
This program will instruct public health educators and program planners on the use of the PPECA community-focused patient safety consumer awareness model premiered in 2005. In this phase of the work, five rural Iowa communities will be invited to participate in the project. The program will provide train-the-trainer workshops on hosting a consumer awareness program on patient safety. The programs will be held in the Spring of 2008 for a multidisciplinary audience of librarians, consumers, healthcare educators, hospital educators and public health employees. CE credits for the events will be sought and a kick-off event for the educational series will be held at UIHC during National Patient Safety Week in March of 2008.
For more information on the program, please visit: http://www.galter.northwestern.edu/ppeca/
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