Patient Safety Day

  

World Patient Safety Day, Annually July 25th
Moment of Silence

 

Patient Safety Day Nightingale and Codman Award Honorees & Press Releases

2013  All Patients, Families and Patient Safety Heroes and Promoters Across the Globe - from providers to politicians, and beyond.
2012  All Patients, Families and Patient Safety Heroes and Promoters Across the Globe - from providers to politicians, and beyond.
2011  Dr. Charles Denham
2010  Veteran Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP) and PULSEAmerica.
2009  Dr. Lucian Leape 

Contacts: 2011 World Patient Safety Day Committee
Dr. Patti O’Regan, DNP, ARNP, Chairperson (727) 845-4250, pattioregan@gmail.com   
Becky Martins, Secretary (207) 975-3475 voice4patients@aol.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 12, 2011
CHARLES DENHAM, M.D. RECEIVES 2011 NIGHTINGALE & CODMAN WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY AWARD

CHARLES DENHAM, M.D., Harvard Instructor, Mayo Clinic Adjunct Professor and Radiation Oncologist has been voted recipient of the 2011 Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman World Patient Safety Day Award.  

Florence Nightingale was one of the first epidemiologists, statisticians, evidence-based practice and patient safety pioneers in nursing and healthcare.  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. In recognition of his pioneering and innovative patient safety and quality improvement work, Dr. Denham has been voted the 2011 recipient of the award which honors those who represent the values and furtherance of the patient safety work of Nightingale and Codman.

Like Nightingale and Codman, Dr. Denham has devoted much of his career to patient safety and healthcare performance improvement.  He developed and implemented a consensus model for identifying evidence-based safe practice standards and translation of standards of care into healthcare practice.  He led national and global initiatives resulting in paradigm-shifting value-based healthcare pay-for-performance standards.  Dr. Denham developed innovative strategies for including patient input, throughput and output into the methodology for laying the knowledge foundation for exploratory research that can be expected to help improve patient outcomes.  He developed the first patient-provider partnership panel of authors for collaborative review of national safe standards of care and practice, published in the National Quality Forum Safe Practices for Better Healthcare (2009).  Dr. Denham is an outspoken advocate of healthcare performance improvement, safe standards and practices that chase zero preventable patient harm, value-based healthcare purchasing and reimbursement, and transparency in healthcare.  Dr. Denham’s patient safety service includes being a founding member and chair of the Leapfrog Group Safe Practices Program, co-chair of the NQF Safe Practices Consensus Standards Committee, Institute for Healthcare Improvement faculty, founder and chair of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology which has funded numerous private and public patient safety initiatives, including a 2007 pay-for performance hospital safe practice reporting program, and is the Editor-and-Chief of the Journal of Patient Safety.

Patient Safety Day is held on July 25th annually. Patients, families, healthcare providers and consumer groups join together in a moment of silence and candlelight vigil; online, at home, work or wherever you are - in memory of patients and families who have lost their life or quality of life due to medical errors - and in tribute to those who work to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for future patients. The event now draws participants from more than 41 states and numerous countries.

For additional detail on the 11th annual World Patient Safety Day, please visit www.patientsafetyday.com

 2010 Patient Safety Day_VA QI Research Team & PULSEAmerica receive Nightingale & Codman Award_press release

Contacts:
Patient Safety Day Committee
Dr. Patti O’Regan, Chairperson (727) 845-4250, pattioregan@gmail.com  
Becky Martins, Awards Committee Secretary (207) 975-3475 voice4patients@aol.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 19, 2010

VETERANS AFFAIRS’ NATIONAL SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (NSQIP) TEAM AND PULSEAMERICA WIN NIGHTINGALE & CODMAN PATIENT SAFETY DAY AWARD.

The Veterans Affairs’ (VA) National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP) team and PULSEAMERICA (pulseamerica.org) have been selected as the recipients of the second annual Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman Patient Safety Day Award. The award is being given in conjunction with this year's 10th annual Patient Safety Day and the upcoming 11th year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking patient safety and quality of care in America report to Congress. 

Florence Nightingale was one of the first epidemiologists, statisticians, evidence-based practice and patient safety pioneers in nursing and healthcare.  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

In recognition of the VA NSQIP teams’ pioneering and innovative research that raised awareness of adverse events by measuring and feeding back to healthcare providers comparative morbidity and mortality outcomes data, the NSQIP has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the award which honors those who represent the values and furtherance of the patient safety work of Nightingale and Codman.  The decades-long work of the NSQIP team in showing the application of giving providers feedback on adverse event and mortality data to the prevention of adverse events and medical errors is on-going; continuing to result in significant reduction of adverse events and improvement in patient outcomes. 

In recognition of the PULSEAMERICA co-founders’ and teams’ innovative, servant work in raising the bar for awareness of medical errors, prevention and patient safety through support of those who have been harmed by medical errors, PULSEAMERICA has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the award which honors those who represent the values and furtherance of the patient safety work of Nightingale and Codman. The self-less dedication of co-founders Ilene Corina, Jennifer Dingman and the PULSE team has made a visible difference in the lives of patients, families and communities through their decades-long work in bringing awareness, education and community outreach to patients, families and patient safety discussions on local and international platforms.

Patient Safety Day is held on July 25th annually. Patients, families, healthcare providers and consumer groups join together in a moment of silence and candlelight vigil at noon and 6:00 PM; at home, work or wherever you are - in memory of patients and families who have lost their life or quality of life due to medical errors - and in tribute to those who work to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for future patients. The event draws participants from more than 42 states and numerous countries.

For additional detail on the 10th annual Patient Safety Day, please visit www.patientsafetyday.com.

 

2009 Patient Safety Day_Harvard Instructor receives 1st Nightingale & Codman Award_press release

Contacts:
Patient Safety Day Committee
Patti O’Regan, ARNP, Chairperson (727) 845-4250, pattioregan@gmail.com   
Becky Martins, Awards Committee Secretary (207) 975-3475 voice4patients@aol.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 15, 2009
LUCIAN LEAPE, M.D. RECEIVES 1st NIGHTINGALE & CODMAN PATIENT SAFETY DAY AWARD

LUCIAN LEAPE, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health and pediatric surgeon has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Florence Nightingale and Dr. E. Codman Patient Safety Day Award. The award is being given in conjunction with this year's 9th annual Patient Safety Day and the 10th year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking patient safety in America report to Congress. 

Florence Nightingale was one of the first epidemiologists, statisticians, evidence-based practice and patient safety pioneers in nursing and healthcare.  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. In recognition of his pioneering research in patient safety and quality of care, Dr. Leape has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the award which honors those who represent the values and furtherance of the patient safety work of Nightingale and Codman.

Like Nightingale and Codman, Dr. Leape has devoted his professional career to learning about and understanding medical error epidemiology; how they occur and what must be done to improve patient safety. Dr. Leape is known to patient safety advocates as the father of the modern patient safety movement. He was a lead investigator of the Harvard Medical Practice Study (1991) and a member of the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Care in America Committee, which published the landmark 1999 "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" report that indicated up to 98,000 hospital patients die annually from medical errors. He published one of the first studies showing the application of systems theory to the prevention of medication errors.  He is an outspoken advocate of full disclosure, transparency, and prompt apology when patients have been harmed by errors.  Dr. Leape's patient safety service includes being a founding member of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error, the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Medical Error and the Lucian Leape Institute, a think tank, founded in 2007.

Patient Safety Day is held on July 25th annually. Patients, families, healthcare providers and consumer groups join together in a moment of silence and candlelight vigil at noon and 6:00 PM; at home, work or wherever you are -  in memory of patients and families who have lost their life or quality of life due to medical errors - and in tribute to those who work to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for future patients. The event now draws participants from more than 40 states and numerous countries.

For additional detail on the 9th annual Patient Safety Day , please visit www.patientsafetyday.com.