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By: Mary Borges, Senior Fall Program Manager, Washington State Department of Health Make STEADI Part of Your Medical Practice Falls are not an inevitable part of aging. There are specific things that you, as their health care provider, can do to reduce their chances of falling. STEADI’s tools and educational materials will help you to:…
In an effort to bring attention to the work of medication safety professionals, the Washington Patient Safety Coalition is featuring an ongoing series of blogs from clinicians on the front line of medication reconciliation efforts.
By: Miriam Marcus Smith, WPSC Program Director The 13th Northwest Patient Safety Conference (May 2015) included several short sessions in the afternoon – we call these “the fast and the furious” because the format for each is a short (10-minute) talk followed by about 10 minutes of discussion at the tables. Participants are assigned to…
By Ginny Weir, MPH Program Director, Bree Collaborative You deserve to be actively involved in your health. Your health care team should treat you as a partner and work with you to decide what type of care or treatment is best. This is why shared decision-making is so important. Shared decision-making is a way for…
By Ginny Weir, MPH Program Director, Bree Collaborative You deserve to be actively involved in your health. Your health care team should treat you as a partner and work with you to decide what type of care or treatment is best. This is why shared decision-making is so important. Shared decision-making is a way for…
WPSC Member Featured in Second Victim Resource Paper: Patricia McCotter, RN, JD, Director of Patient Safety Innovations and Provider Support at WPSC member organization Physicians Insurance, is a co-author of a recent article published in The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management. … Read More.
Electronic health records (EHR) have significant potential to improve safety, but can also make existing risks greater, or introduce new ones. The WPSC recently commissioned a study of these issues; the product … Read More.
Swedish, First Hill has an opening for a full time Patient Safety Officer. The Patient Safety Officer is responsible for being a member of Swedish organizational response to quality variances and having or developing skills to evaluate variance reports, perform root cause analysis and Healthcare Failure Mode Effect Analysis and investigations for serious safety events…
Honoring Choice Pacific Northwest is an advanced care planning implementation program that aims to inspire conversations about the type of care people want … Read More.
By Lauri St. Ours Director of Governmental & Legislative Affairs, Washington Health Care Association Over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias according to the Alzheimer’s Association. The impact of this national health epidemic is startling. One in three seniors dies with some form of dementia. In Washington State, one in…
