The Problem
Medical Errors
Claim the Lives of 3+ Million Patients Every Year
Globally it is believed that medical errors kill more people than HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, combined. COVID-19 exposed all the deficiencies in healthcare that already existed and placed patients and health workers at greater risk for preventable harm.
The Solution
Connecting the Dots
Urgently unifying people and collectively improving patient safety across the globe.
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation believes reaching ZERO preventable patient harm and deaths across the globe by 2030 is not only the right goal, but an attainable one with the right people, ideas, and technology.
3 Million
Patients estimated to die globally each year from medical errors.
8,220+
Patients die in hospitals every day, in ways that could have been prevented.
232,887+
People around the globe believe ZERO is the only acceptable goal
108
Countries engaged and impacted through our programs and services
Announcements
Monthly CE-bearing Performance Improvement Workshop
Save the Date: March 4-5, 2022
News
To Drug Test or Not to Drug Test: Opioid Epidurals and Potential Department of Child Services Investigations
My First Chairman’s Letter
The Blackburn Family Story
Joe Kiani Appointed to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)