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Newsletter, November 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Thanks to Elijeko Foundation, lives are being saved in Ghana through preventive health education and free healthcare screenings. Andrews Kwabena Nyantakyi, a US Navy veteran and registered nurse, founded Elijeko Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, in 2016. We are doing this—and healthcare is better because of it.

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Newsletter, September 2023

Patient Safety Movement

On September 11, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) had its virtual meeting where it reviewed quality and safety of healthcare. On September 21, our Founder, Joe Kiani, was one of the keynote speakers at the 2023 Beta Healthcare Annual Member Symposium.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

But many years before it was the nurse Florence Nightingale who taught us the importance of recording and contemporaneous note taking and even more importantly the analysis of outcome data to drive improvement. The situation is exacerbated by the financial challenges at Steward Health Care, which operates 10 hospitals in the state.