(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit committed to achieving zero preventable patient deaths by 2030, announced the winners of its 2021 Humanitarian and Lewis Blackman awards at its 8th annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) will host the 8th annual World Patient Safety, Science and Technology Summit (WPSSTS) virtually April 29 and April 30, 2022. The event is co-convened by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the European Society of...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Medical errors claim the lives of nearly three million individuals across the globe every year. In any other high-risk industry, like aviation and nuclear power, these numbers would not be acceptable. Yet, the healthcare industry has continued to allow these events to...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit committed to achieving zero preventable patient harm and death across the globe by 2030, today announced Michael A.E. Ramsay, MD, FRCA as its new chief executive officer. Following his appointment, Mike Durkin,...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The second annual #UniteForSafeCare event is scheduled for Friday, September 17th in conjunction with World Patient Safety Day. The event is hosted by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and co-convened with The Leapfrog Group to bring global awareness to the lack...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit committed to achieving zero preventable patient harm and death across the globe by 2030, has selected five individuals for its inaugural Patient Safety Movement Foundation Healthcare Safety Fellowship program....
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit committed to achieving zero preventable patient harm and death across the globe by 2030, honored Oscar San Roman Orozco and Nicholas Stark with this inaugural year’s Lewis Blackman Leadership Award. The Lewis...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit committed to achieving zero preventable patient deaths by 2030, announced the winners of its 2020 Humanitarian Awards at a virtual ceremony on February 8, 2021. The recipients included Steve Burrows, Vonda...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit on a mission to achieve zero preventable patient deaths by 2030, has appointed Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSc to serve as vice chairman of the board of directors. Dr. Durkin will work alongside Chairman...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Every year, more than 4.8 million patients lose their lives to preventable medical errors worldwide. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit, is committed to achieving zero preventable patient deaths by 2030 and has launched a revised commitment...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation released a detailed white paper and its leadership issued the following statement urging the creation of a National Patient Safety Board: “COVID-19 has exposed the safety gaps in our healthcare system that already cause...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced former professional Overwatch player and esports ambassador Jake Lyon will host the Foundation’s Unite For Safe Care Virtual Event. The event will be hosted online, available globally, September 17th, at 5pm Eastern...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced Grammy-nominated global pop icon and Go-Gos frontwoman Belinda Carlisle will perform at the Foundation’s Unite For Safe Care Virtual Event. The event will be hosted online, available globally, September 17th at 5pm...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced that President Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, will be the closing keynote speaker at the Foundation’s Unite For Safe Care Virtual Event. The event will be hosted online, available globally,...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, four leading global organizations dedicated to fighting preventable deaths due to medical errors announced their partnership to co-convene the #uniteforsafecare program on World Patient Safety Day (September 17, 2020). In June, the Patient Safety Movement...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) unveiled its early plans aligned with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Patient Safety Day on September 17, 2020. This year, WHO is focusing on the theme of health worker safety as a core priority in achieving...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) – a global non-profit dedicated to unifying those involved in the healthcare ecosystem, identifying challenges that are causing patient deaths, and creating actionable solutions to mitigate them – is pleased to announce the...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Patient Safety Movement Foundation is urging clinicians, patient advocates, hospitals and medical technology companies to support Data Sharing as part of the 2020 Federal Health IT plan. “One of the key ways to combat preventable patient deaths in hospitals is for...
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- President Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, will be the closing keynote speaker at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s 2020 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The 8th annual Summit will be held in Huntington Beach, California,...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Patient Safety Movement Foundation: WHAT: After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, a son’s video diary becomes a citizen’s investigation into American healthcare. Shot over...