February 2012
11 posts
AHRQ Funded PROMISES Malpractice and Safety... →
Entitled PROMISES (Proactive Reduction in Outpatient Malpractice: Improving Safety Efficiency and Satisfaction)
The National Implementation of TeamSTEPPS... →
AHRQ Announces Free TeamSTEPPS Training Opportunities
Register: Partnership for Patients and National... →
Creating and Sustaining Successful Partnerships between Hospitals and Community Organizations
Overview:
During this 90-minute webinar, panelists will discuss how to create and sustain meaningful relationships with community groups, including health care organizations, government support services, and non-profit groups. Panelists will share success stories, tools and resources from the field....
New: Patient- and Family-Centered Care and the... →
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
ABSTRACT:
Drawing on several decades of work with families, pediatricians, other health care professionals, and policy makers, the American Academy of Pediatrics provides a definition of patient- and family-centered care. In pediatrics, patient- and family-centered care is based on the understanding that the family is the child’s primary source of strength...
ISQua Knowledge Webinar: 'When things go wrong - ... →
The ISQua Knowledge Patient Centred Care Community is hosting a Webinar to discuss current issues around open disclosure and engagement of patients and family following a serious adverse event. The recently released 2nd edition of ‘Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse Events’ by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement will serve as a spring board for discussion.
Join...
Visit the AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center →
Great resources for pharmacists working with their communities!
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a...”
– ~ Vince Lombardi
Risky Business Paediatric Day at the 2012... →
Attend Risky Business Paediatric Day which brings together the very latest Patient Safety Initiatives from some of the world’s leading children’s hospitals. Presentations of the latest and best Patient Safety Initiatives from:
Beijing Children’s Hospital Children’s Hospital of Boston Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cincinnati Children’s Medical Centre Great Ormond Street Hospital for...
APSF: Medication Safety Video →
Thank you to those who created this video for APSF on medication safety. It’s a powerful tool to save lives. Please watch and share with your students and clinical staff.
Letter of appreciation for Justin's IHI Forum...
My friends and colleagues are quite aware of how much our partnership with IHI, to award forum scholarships in Justin’s name to caregivers, means to me. Here is one of the reasons why:
Dale,
Thank you so much for the incredible gift you have given me. It has been such an honor and I feel privileged to be able to hear such important stories and benefit from the experiences of others at such...
Artscape: telling the story behind a medical... →
January 2012
18 posts
WatchTALKS | TEDX
Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals →
Improving Performance on the AHRQ Quality Indicators
To learn more about the toolkit from the developers and hear from a quality expert at a hospital that tested it, register for a free AHRQ-sponsored Webinar on February 15 from 2:30-4:00 p.m. ET:
http://tinyurl.com/6m4tn9n
The Webinar “How To Improve Performance on the AHRQ Inpatient Quality and Patient Safety Indicators: Introducing a Toolkit...
Learn more: Survey Finds ‘Discouraging’ Injection... →
“A new survey paints an at-times alarming picture of injection practices among anesthesiologists in New York state.”
One of the patient safety groups that I participate in is the NYS “One and Only” Safe Injection Practices Work group. I ask you to please take a look at this report (linked in the title) in Anesthesiology News this month.
Drs. Greene, Gounder and Beers...
Questions to ponder in healthcare injury,...
Training discussion topics:
What would be the one thing that you would change in healthcare that you know would save lives?
What have you learned from reading Justin’s story? What was done right? What was done wrong? What could have been done better?
Patients/Families: What does Justice mean to the patient/family who has experienced the harm? What do you honestly want to see occur to the...
NICHQ Powerful Partnerships A Handbook for... →
Introduction
“This guide is intended to help both family members and healthcare professionals who are working together to improve care for children with special healthcare needs. Joining together in multi-disciplinary teams, family members and providers are increasingly working as equal partners to improve care. Collaborating as equals may be new for family members and providers. This guide...
Parent to Parent/Family Voices of NYS Record... →
Advancing the global communication of scholarship... →
Please visit the author’s website: http://www.personcenteredmedicine.org/
“The International Network for Person-centered Medicine now denominated International College of Person-centered Medicine is a non-for-profit educational, research, and advocacy organization emerging from the Geneva Conferences on Person-centered Medicine since 2008 to date aimed at promoting the articulation of...
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“God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower-strewn pathways all our lives...”
– I am often asked to share my wisdom and the wisdom and expertise of healthcare providers with patients and families to help them through trying, unbearable times when they are feeling abandoned. Sometimes, at the end of the day when nothing more can be done, advised or said, I give them this poem...
Medical-Legal Partnership Helping Patients and... →
Great talk today on WIHI “Removing Barriers to Better Health and Better Care with Medical-Legal Partnerships”
Barry Zuckerman, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine; Founder, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Robert Kahn, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati...
IHI Open School Presentation on Patient Safety,... →
I’m excited to be presenting for the Northeast Hospitals IHI Open School Chapter affiliated with Endicott College, North Shore Community College and Salem State University in Massachusetts on Jan. 30, 2012 at 6:30 pm. Please join us or form a chapter near you! (updated post)
IHI 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality... →
Presentations located on the PIPSQC web site
1. New Paradigms in Paediatric Patient Safety Lachman, P., MD, Associate Medical Director and Consultant in Service Redesign and Transformation, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust 2. Pediatricians Partnering with Patients and Families to Save Lives Micalizzi, D., Pediatric Patient Safety Advocate and Consultant, The Task Force...
See IHITV: IHI 23rd Annual National Forum on... →
'Couch potato pill' may also prevent heatstroke →
Some of the intriguing scientific work being completed by Dr. Robert Dirksen, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and Dr. Susan Hamilton, a professor of molecular physiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Both were presenters at the 2010 MHAUS Scientific Conference. See more at MHAUS:...
Informed choice: The meeting point of law, ... →
Many thanks to the Health Issues Centre of Victoria’s Health Consumer Organisation (Australia) for providing our Justin’s HOPE audience with full access to this publication. Please visit their informative site at http://www.healthissuescentre.org.au/ and browse their impressive resource library at http://www.healthissuescentre.org.au/publications/library.shtml
Victoria’s Health...
Anesthesiology News NYS: Survey Finds... →
ABC News Video: Quality of Hospital Care →
It’s time we mandate reporting of medical mistakes! Noticing errors, reporting them and reducing them should be a priority and the law just like many of us who work with children are mandated to report child abuse. Having a state reporting agency “hot line” where you can make a call anonymously (or not) with your concerns can keep people safe. For not reporting a suspected error...
The Task Force for Global Health 2011 Annual... →
Please share this amazing work that the Task Force continues to accomplish. I’m very proud and honored to be involved in their work and mission to improve care internationally! Thank you to all of the staff for assisting our Justin’s HOPE project over the years to become an educational tool in providing safer and more transparent healthcare while educating and embracing students and...
December 2011
7 posts
WIHI-Heard at the Forum: New Ideas and Learning... →
Please listen to the archived broadcast with take away learning and resources from the #IHI 23rd Forum!
PIPSQC Minicourse at the IHI 23rd Annual National... →
PIPSQC Blog: PIPSQC’s Minicourse (M23) “Making Health Care Safer for Children” at the IHI 23rd Annual National Forum was a Great Success! Thank you to all our Participants. Presentations from the Minicourse will soon be posted online in the Resource Center.
We are delighted to announce Dr. Peter Lachman as the new Chair of PIPSQC! Peter was a founding member of PIPSQC and has served as PIPSQC...
Partnership for Patients initiative to improve... →
“…Achieving the Partnership for Patients’ objectives would mean approximately 1.8 million fewer injuries to patients in the hospital, saving over 60,000 lives over three years, and would mean more than 1.6 million patients to recover from illness without suffering a preventable complication requiring re-hospitalization.
The 26 organizations receiving awards are: American Hospital...
Regina Holliday's Medical Advocacy Blog: Embracing... →
I’m reposting Regina’s blog about our journey. Thank you for all you do in telling stories through your art, seeing all of those invisible details that make the story complete and real! (comments can be made on Regina’s blog linked above.)
Embracing Failure
1977, three bright students who graduated from Stanford University had an idea. Using a mimeograph machine as a...
Welcome to this special edition of TW@IHI with... →
Special Issue: LIVE from the IHI NATIONAL FORUM
More forum events here: http://tinyurl.com/d83o3r2
November 2011
17 posts
“Paying close attention to patients’ and families’ experience of care...”
– Drs. Charles Vincent and Rachel Davis, Imperial Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality, Imperial College, London, UK
The Picture of Health Care Guide for the 23rd #IHI... →
Please join us and become involved!
CDC Family Health-Helping families be safer,... →
Also, the 2012 healthy living calendars are ready to download.
http://www.cdc.gov/family/calendar/?source=govdelivery
Our article on Informed choice was published in... →
Informed choice: The meeting point of law, medicine, and person-centred care
By Marie M. Bismark and Dale Ann Micalizzi
Abstract: Informed choice is the process by which people are educated about a treatment decision and then make an informed and voluntary decision about the healthcare they choose to receive. But behind that simple definition lies a complex history and no shortage of...
Occupy With Grace
Please join us in the “Engage with Grace” blog rally #EWG Once again, this Thanksgiving we are grateful to all the people who keep this mission alive day after day: to ensure that each and every one of us understands, communicates, and has honored their end of life wishes.
Seems almost more fitting than usual this year – the year of making change happen. 2011 gave us the Arab Spring...
Partnership for Patients and National Quality... →
From the National Quality Forum:
Partnership for Patients
Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services launched the Partnership for Patients initiative to dramatically improve patient safety across the country. This initiative will engage stakeholders from the private and public sectors to reduce all cause harm and hospital readmissions.
To reach this goal, the Centers for Medicare and...
ANESTHESIOLOGY 2011 Opening Session Target:... →
How do we get good at what we do? Listen to Dr. Atul Gawande’s presentation to learn about teamwork, honesty, education, improving confidence and reducing cost. “It’s gotten complicated”, he confides “and we can’t do it alone anymore..”
I first wrote to Atul after reading his book, Complications…and he wrote back. I’ve sat in the front row...
Handling Grief Through the Holiday Season →
Join The Compassionate Friends for a webinar on Handling Grief through the holidays.
Join us for a Webinar on November 17
“The holiday season is a difficult time of year for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one. Grief experts Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley, from the Open to Hope Foundation, will join Pat Loder, executive director of The Compassionate Friends, for a look at...
SUMC decreases annual liability premiums via the... →
“A recent report by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) showed that a new approach to handling preventable medical errors has reduced liability premiums at Stanford hospitals by $3.2 million per year…” read more.
Please take the initiative to do the right thing.
Peter Pronovost podcast:
The Heart of...
Please join us at PIPSQC! Membership drive this... →
PIPSQC is an informal, international collaborative of professionals who share a passion for patient safety and quality in paediatrics, and who interact together across organizational and geographic boundaries, to advance learning and improvements in these areas. This complex adaptive system emerged in 2006 as a result of a pre-symposium invitational gathering before SickKids’ Second Annual...
