Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety - this year scheduled for March 13-19th. The week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing work already being done. The Center for Patient Safety is promoting...

Hearts are a big deal. It is no wonder that the organ we’ve relied on to pump our blood since before we are born was once seen as the center of our emotional life. We change our diets to keep our hearts healthy, we take up running, we quit smoking, work to manage our alcohol...

Our vision, shared across the Bree Collaborative, Cardiac COAP, Obstetrical COAP, Spine COAP, Surgical COAP, and the Washington Patient Safety Coalition, is that every person in our community lives a long, and healthy life. Part of how we get there is a health care and public health system that is informed by appropriate evidence balanced with promising practice;...

A better health care system is possible. This vision, and the question of how we can all, within our varied and siloed systems, help to better meet the whole of a person within and outside of clinical care is at the root of our work at the Foundation for Health Care Quality. Last year at...