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Newsletter, March 2024

Patient Safety Movement

“I believe in data transparency, and it is unacceptable that we lack clarity on the true number of patient harm events.” Hopefully, healthcare facilities reliant on solar power will have adequate battery storage and functioning backup power generators. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation will be well represented.

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Newsletter, July 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Don Berwick—one of the original giants in patient safety and a founding member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement—gave an inspiring keynote address. Hospital-acquired infections, misdiagnoses, medication errors—these are process errors and have been significantly reduced by some healthcare systems.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

doctors felt burned out, with the specialties detailed here. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. At the top of the list of stressors was the same issue hurting physician well-being last year: too many bureaucratic tasks, felt by 58% of the surveyed doctors. Four in ten U.S. I have become the typist.”

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Inside Health Care #123: Health Equity & Making the Commitment to Change

NCQA

In her past work, as the top doctor leading Michigan’s COVID response, she is credited with the state’s early identification of and actions to decrease disparities, and in 2021 was appointed by President Biden to the national COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Bryan O. Buckley Dr. Bryan O.