Tennessee Hospitals Take Aim at Medical Error with Aerial Aces

The Tennessee Center for Patient Safety(TCPS) will be partnering with LifeWings Partners, LLC in 2013 in its ongoing effort to make patient safety a priority across the state of Tennessee. The aim of this partnership will be to advance the adoption of TeamSTEPPS, a patient safety program built on the best practices from aviation to improve the reliability, safety and quality of care received by patients in Tennessee hospitals.

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Learning from Patient Stories: New Resources for Crisis Management

Earlier this month, during Patient Safety Awareness Week, Jim Conway contributed new resources for improving the understanding of and response to serious clinical adverse events. Conway, a well-known champion of patients and families, former senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and adjunct faculty at Harvard School of Public Health, appeared as a guest blogger on Health Care for All’s Healthy Blog. In his post, “Serious Clinical Adverse Events: Learning Through the Eyes of Patients and Family Members,” Conway recalls patient stories that have made a difference to him and others and introduces new sources he helped IHI add to its existing list available online at “Leadership Response to a Sentinel Event: Respectful, Effective Crisis Management.”

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Joint Venture Delivers National Quality Measurement, Benchmarking, and Reporting Platform for Medication Use

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) and CECity.com, Inc. (CECity) have launched Pharmacy Quality Solutions, Inc. (PQS), a joint venture created to deliver EQuIPPTM (Electronic Quality Improvement Platform for Plans and Pharmacies), the first national pharmacy quality measurement, benchmarking, and reporting platform for pharmacies and health plans.

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ECRI Institute Announces 2013 Health Devices Achievement Award – Call for Entries

ECRI Institute is now accepting submissions to its 8th annual Health Devices Achievement Award program. ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has recognized healthcare organizations nationwide for the past seven years with its prestigious award for achieving excellence in technology management and patient safety.

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Global Survey Sheds Light on Patient Safety Challenges in Nursing

When it comes to addressing patient safety issues within a hospital, nurses want to make a difference and they assign themselves great responsibility for safe outcomes. However, the question remains whether hospitals are doing everything they can in terms of keeping patients safe. According to a recent survey of nurses in the United States, UK and China by GE Healthcare and the American Nurses Association (ANA), many nurses have witnessed errors and few call their own hospitals safe.

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