NATIONAL, WORLD, GLOBAL PATIENT SAFETY DAY
OBSERVED JULY 25TH ANNUALLY
Mission: Offer hope, healing and advocacy for safe healthcare - today, everyday, everywhere.
Vision: Saving lives and reducing healthcare costs through elimination of preventable medical errors and harm
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 errors and harm. P.U.L.S.E., Voice4Patients, Patient Safety Cleveland, Association of Dialysis Advocates, Mothers Against Medical Error, 1stDoNoHarm, Luna'sLight, Colorado Citizens for Accountability, Floridians For Patient Protection, Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, HCPro Patient Safety Monitor, Amistaff Healthcare Technology, Allnurses, Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative and Consumers Union are some of the groups who have joined in support of Patient Safety Day on July 25th in the past. Everyone is welcome: please join hands or hearts, connecting again this year with individuals, families and groups across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Korea, Germany, France, Venezuala and throughout the world.
We are pleased to announce that in 2009 the Inaugural Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman Patient Safety Day Award recipient was Dr. Lucian Leape. 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 translational practice that placed patient safety and quality outcomes above all else. Dr. Lucian Leape follows in and broadens the "patient safety first" footpath of Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman. http://www5.aaos.org/oko/ebp/EBP001/suppPDFs/OKO_EBP001_S29.pdf
2010 Nightingale and Codman World Patient Safety Day Award information will be coming soon...
~ The World Patient Safety Day Committee
Ilene Corina
