By Ilene Corina, BCPA | Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Sitting with a patient at her bedside waiting for her operation, I watched the nurses scramble around to each patient preparing each of them for surgery. They took blood pressure and asked questions and some were speaking softly, helping them each to...
by: Anita Sulaiman | Principal Consultant and Executive Coach at IBEX Consulting What does every one of us need – regardless of age, race, gender, religion or nationality? Healthcare. One of the biggest and most enduring challenges in healthcare is the issue of provider stigma and bias, and their impact on patient outcomes. We all...
by John Vassall, MD, FACP | Physician Executive, Quality & Safety, Comagine Health According to the article, an investigation showed that because of “a combination of faulty processes, oversights by physicians, technical snafus and a radiologist’s overwork” a backlog of 1,300 unread Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) scans of patient’s faces and jaws occurred between...
Today is the first-ever World Patient Safety Day! To honor that, we at the Washington Patient Safety Coalition want to highlight some of resources we have available for those working within the patient safety field! The Washington Patient Safety Coalition is a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality (FHCQ) that acts as a…
by Gwen O’Keefe, MD, FACP | Principal, GO Healthcare Strategy Imagine you’ve just spent a harrowing 4 days in the hospital with sudden onset of heart problems, had many tests, and are sent home with multiple appointments and new medications. The conversations with hospital staff passed in a blur. You don’t understand what the results of…
by Kit Hoffman, PsyD | BESIDE Program Coach, Confluence Health In the year 2000, a physician named Albert Wu coined the term “second victim” to describe the experience of physicians, and other medical care providers, who make a medical mistake. The patient, of course, is the first victim of a medical mistake. The medical care provider,…
by Karen M. Markwith RN, MJ, CPHRM, CHPS | Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Virginia Mason In our January 2018 strategic planning session, diagnostic error rose to the top of the discussion and became one of the two key areas we voted to devote WPSC efforts to this year, the other being patient safety…
by Anita Sulaiman, Founding Consultant & Trainer IBEX | Inter-Cultural Business Excellence If you have ever been in a situation where you do not speak the language of the land and cannot understand or make yourself understood, you know what it is like to face a language barrier. Imagine needing medical attention in that environment….
When: September 27-28, 2017 Where: Marriott, SeaTac International Airport | 3201 176th Street | SeaTac, WA 98188 Learn how your organization can implement an effective communication and resolution program (CRP) at this retreat for healthcare leaders. Despite our best efforts as care providers, adverse events happen far too often. Most efforts to respond to them don’t actively…
Organization: Confluence Health Project Name/ Title: CRP Point of Contact: Randal Moseley, MD, FACP, FHM, Medical Director of Quality | randal.moseley@confluencehealth.org About Confluence Health Confluence Health is an integrated healthcare delivery system located in North Central Washington. We serve a population of about 250,000 dispersed over 12,000 square miles. Our resources include two hospitals, 13 clinic…