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Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs with Patient Wishes

HIT Consultant

In fact, patients have generally become more amenable to being treated remotely , further supporting the move to add telehealth tools to the patient care arsenal. Increasing The Quality of Care at Home Without Adding to The Burden. You could be excused for thinking this would just replace one problem with another.

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Newsletter, October 2022

Patient Safety Movement

NEW FEDERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NURSING HOME SAFETY The White House has just announced a plan to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes, aimed to protect seniors from an industry known for its lack of accountability. The AEBP is available without charge to hospitals online.

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Newsletter, December 2022

Patient Safety Movement

Along with our Founder, Joe Kiani, we are laser focused on achieving a safer healthcare system, with zero preventable harm—both for patients and clinicians. Our goals for 2023 are aimed at four major targets: Actionable Evidence-Based Practices to reduce common causes of preventable patient harm.

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Newsletter, July 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Next, he recognized the tragic losses that have occurred to loved ones because of preventable errors. Hospital-acquired infections, misdiagnoses, medication errors—these are process errors and have been significantly reduced by some healthcare systems. So the goals of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation must be implemented.

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Newsletter, March 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. Please visit psmf.org for more details. suffer from a wrong-site surgery each week.

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Newsletter, June 2023

Patient Safety Movement

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Commonwealth Fund, the United States has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, and Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.

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Newsletter, January 2024

Patient Safety Movement

In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported. If this data were made available, with the aid of AI technology reviewing medical records, would we have the same response as in the airline industry to prevent the same errors from occurring again and again?