Patient Safety Day

World Patient Safety Day

 Mission:  Offer hope, healing and advocacy for safe healthcare - today and everyday.
Vision:  Save lives and reduce healthcare costs through elimination of preventable medical errors and harm.

Virtual Candlelight Moment of Silence

Online Across the World July 25th (click candle)

Since 2001, many of you have joined with others throughout the world in the annual Patient Safety Day observance on July 25th.  Upon last count, patients,families, providers and consumer groups from at least 41 states and several countries have participated in the Patient Safety Day moment of silence and candlelight vigil; in tribute to those who work to improve the safety and quality of healthcare for future patients - in memory of patients and families who have lost their life or quality of life due to medical errors and harm.  Wherever you are on July 25th, in your home, at work or a group Patient Safety Day event within your community, light a candle (or turn on your headlights if in your car) or simply take a moment to pause at noon in your timezone for a moment of silence that will connect you with others across the world on Patient Safety Day. 
   
Patient Safety Day is a time to embrace life, loss, change and hope; a day that gives everyone a moment of silence to reflect and join in a shared vision of safer healthcare and a shared moment to honor the lives of all patients and families affected by medical error harm and those whose work contributed to safe, quality patient care.  Alliance For Patient Safety, Voice4Patients, PULSEAmerica, PULSEofNewYork, Empowered Patient Coalition, Patient Safety Cleveland, Association of Dialysis Advocates, Mothers Against Medical Error, Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (MITSS), 1stDoNoHarm, Luna'sLight, Colorado Citizens for Accountability, Floridians For Patient Protection, Ohio Patient Safety Institute, Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, HCPro Patient Safety Monitor, Amistaff Healthcare Technology, HHS HRSA PSSC, Allnurses, RWJF Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, HCFA, New Mexico Medical Review Assoc. (Medicare QIO), North Shore Nephrology, Huffington Post columnist and book author Patrick Malone, TapRoot, NPSF MedQIC and Consumers Union are a sample of those who have recognized and/or joined in support of Patient Safety Day on July 25th in the past.  U.S. Congressmen, State Senators and State House Representatives, Assemblymen, Mayors, City Councilmembers and other politicians and governmental entities within the U.S. are continuing to demonstrate visionary and compassionate leadership through their support of Patient Safety Day, as are patients and families, medical, nursing, pharmacy and other providers in several countries who have and continue to join in support of Patient Safety Day.  Everyone is welcome: please join hands or hearts, online at the www.patientsafetyday.com Moment of Silence page or in your community, connecting again this year with individuals, families and groups across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, Germany, France, Venezuala, Brazil, Republic of China, Taiwan, Malaysia and throughout the world.  

Patient Safety Day Nightingale and Codman Award Honorees

2011  Nominee submissions & voting have concluded.  Press release to announce the award recipient coming soon.

2010  Veteran Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP) and PULSEAmerica.

2009  Dr. Lucian Leape

We were pleased to announce that the Veterans Affairs' (VA) National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP) team and PULSEAmerica (pulseamerica.org) were the 2010 Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman Patient Safety Day Award honorees (click on "press release" link at top of page).  Below is one article that references the values and achievement of both Florence Nightingale (briefly) and Dr. E. Codman - two selfless pioneers.  Florence Nightingale, a nurse, was the first epidemiologist, statistician, evidence-based practice and patient safety pioneer who focused on outcomes in health care.  Dr. Codman followed with his stellar surgical career and hospital evidence-based “end results” theory and practice.  Nightingale and Codman represented the values, character and pioneering evidence-based applied and translational practice that placed patient safety and quality outcomes above all else.  The Inaugural Patient Safety Day Award recipient, Dr. Lucian Leape, and the second annual honorees, the VA NSQIP team and PULSEAmerica, follow in and broaden the "patient safety first" footpath of Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman.   http://www5.aaos.org/oko/ebp/EBP001/suppPDFs/OKO_EBP001_S29.pdf