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March/April 2012

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• Smart Pump Workarounds: What's the Legal Risk?

• Applying Lessons Learned to Accelerated Adoption of BCMA

• Q & A with Diane Pinakiewicz: ‘Patient Safety Is Everyone’s Work’

• Noah’s Story: Please Listen

• We Can All Define Patient Safety… or Can We?

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• Editor's Notebook: A New Look, Nickname, and Expanded Content

• AHRQ: Evidence-Based Methods and Tools Help Reduce Risk of Falls in Hospitals

• Health IT & Quality: Sensory Overload?

• Meaningful Use: The Next Stage for BCMA

• Human Factors: Design Principles for Manual Safety Systems

• ISMP: Building Patient Safety Skills: Common Pitfalls in Root Cause Analysis

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The Joint Commission Awards First Advanced Certifications for Palliative Care

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois—Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.; Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.; Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York; City; St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac, Mich.; and The Connecticut Hospice, Inc. in Branford, Conn. have become the first hospitals across the country to receive Advanced Certification for Palliative Care from The Joint Commission.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:23
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Texas Children's Hospital to Provide Simulation Training to Houston Fire Department

Houston, Texas—Simulation Center at Texas Children's Hospital has begun providing Pediatric Simulation Training for Emergency Pre-hospital Providers (Pedi-STEPPs) to members of the Houston Fire Department (HFD) EMS. A grant from the Cullen Trust for Healthcare, as well as a community benefit donation from Texas Children's Hospital will allow this innovative training to be offered free of charge to the City for 500 firefighters over the next two years.
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 March 2012 08:29
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GE Healthcare Initiates Evaluation Period for New Global Patient Safety Network

Barrington, Illinois—GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, a unit of GE Healthcare announced the launch of a 90-day evaluation for its Global Patient Safety Network (GPSN), an online community for hospitals to collaborate with peers around the world with the goal of improving patient safety.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:21
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NQF President and CEO Janet Corrigan Announces Plans to Step Down

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Board of Directors has announced that NQF’s President and CEO Janet Corrigan has submitted her resignation, effective late June 2012. Corrigan has served as NQF’s President and CEO for more than six years.