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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020.

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Newsletter, November 2022

Patient Safety Movement

GOVERNANCE BOARD Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSC, Chairman of PSMF , Senior advisor on Patient Safety Policy and Leadership, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London Steven J. Until now, only public hospitals were required to do so.

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The Feminist Political Economy of Health Justice

Bill Of Health

A qualitative study with Black women working as nurses in a public hospital in Johannesburg demonstrated social and economic dependence on women’s health even prior to the pandemic. The post The Feminist Political Economy of Health Justice appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Improving Healthcare Experiences with Collaboration: Case Studies

CiscoHealth

NYC Health + Hospitals. Ontario’s London Health Sciences Centre. Lee Memorial Health System. NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the United States. In the past, the jails had to transport inmates to public hospitals for specialist care.

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State Approaches to Contact Tracing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

NASHP

The New Mexico Department of Health is leading five regional contact-tracing teams statewide. Both , local health departments conduct tracing with central support from the New York State Department of Health. In New York City, the city’s public hospital system will lead tracing work.

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