Patient Safety Blog

Blog Article: Being Your Own Best Health Advocate: Roberta Powell’s Mission to Improve Health Agency

July 1, 2020 | 6 minute read

Empowering Patients with Knowledge on Adverse Drug Interactions for Better Outcomes By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation In 2004, at age 43, Roberta Powell was a successful management consultant with two school-age [...]

Spotlight On: King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre: Getting to Zero CLABSI

June 30, 2020

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) is located in Saudi Arabia, with centers in Riyadh and Jeddah, the two largest cities on the Arabian peninsula.  Offering a wide [...]

Blog Article: Who’s In Charge? Searching for Answers in a Broken Healthcare System

June 10, 2020 | 3 minute read

By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation The coronavirus has pulled the band-aid off of our healthcare system and has exposed the system’s failures. Under normal circumstances, 220,000-440,000 people die from [...]

Letter from the Chairman, June 2020

June 5, 2020

Health workers at Baylor Scott & White Health taking a knee in support of #whitecoatsforblacklives Dear Readers, Just when we thought that we may be entering a more manageable COVID-19 pandemic era, [...]

Blog Article: Understanding the Needs of Youth During the COVID-19 Crisis

May 21, 2020 | 7 minute read

By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation Those older than 65 and with long term conditions are, clinically speaking, more at risk for COVID-19 complications and poorer outcomes. Healthcare workers are [...]

Blog Article: Weighing Next Steps in the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020

The world has been in crisis mode for the past few months, trying to mitigate the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  As of May 13th, 2020, COVID-19 has [...]

Letter from the Chairman, May 2020

April 30, 2020

Dear Citizens, Have we passed the peak of COVID-19 infections?  It certainly looks like many nations around the world, and many states here in the US, are turning a corner in [...]

Blog Article: COVID-19 Putting Patients at Increased Risk of Unplanned Extubation (UE) While UE and Reintubation Putting Providers at Increased Risk of Contamination

April 9, 2020

By: Lauren Berkow, MD FASA and Arthur Kanowitz MD FACEP, Coalition for UE Awareness & Prevention  Healthcare providers have an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19, both during intubation and extubation. Caregivers [...]

Letter from the Chairman, April 2020

April 2, 2020

Dear Readers, Currently, all healthcare workers are focused on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Both they and their patients are at risk. That’s because the virus is so infectious that any mistake by [...]

Blog Article: Amy Viela’s Quest to Improve Healthcare Access for All

March 24, 2020

By Olivia Lounsbury, Clinical Intern, Patient Safety Movement Foundation While you may not have heard of Amy Vilela, she has been at the forefront of fighting for patients and patient safety since [...]