Coalition Activities
This page describes activities sponsored and/or endorsed by the Washington Patient Safety Coalition. Please visit our page for other conferences and initiatives.
If you are aware of a patient safety-related event to share with the community, or are seeking opportunities to collaborate or exchange ideas, please contact us.
Northwest Conference on Patient Safety
“Patient Safety in Transition”
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center
Featured keynote and plenary speakers: Dr. Lucian Leape, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy in the School of Public Health at Harvard; and Dr. Eric Coleman, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado. Breakout sessions include cultural competency, the role of medical devices in transitions, fall prevention, making hand-off communication a reliable process, health literacy, medication reconciliation, connecting with the community physician at discharge, maintaining skin integrity across the continuum of care, and others.
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Information Technology/Patient Safety Conferences
The Washington Patient Safety Coalition and CHITA would like to thank all the attendees and speakers for another successful Information Technology / Patient Safety Conference! Over 150 people attended this year's conference to learn about IT implementation challenges and prerequisites for organizational change; IT and patient safety in large, small, rural and urban inpatient and ambulatory settings; electronic error reporting systems; the federal government's role in promoting and implementing electronic health records, and more.
We are pleased to offer a selection of presentations and other materials from the Meeting for download on the CHITA website.
The Coalition’s CQIP Status
The Washington Patient Safety Coalition is recognized by the State of Washington’s Department of Health as a Coordinated Quality Improvement Program (CQIP). CQIP status provides exemption from disclosure for information and documents specifically created for, collected, and maintained by an approved program. Being a CQIP provides important legal protection for the quality improvement activities carried out under the auspices of the Coalition, and enhances the ability of Coalition partners and participants to collaborate on patient safety issues. The WPSC’s CQIP document includes information about the Coalition’s structure and activities. For additional information about Washington’s CQIP and related laws, see the Department of Health website.
Patient Safety Network
A network for patient safety professionals has formed to facilitate dialogue, collaborate on the development of best practices and regional standards, and harness the collective wisdom of peers to make dramatic improvements in healthcare safety.
Procedure Safety
The Coalition’s initiative to eliminate wrong site surgery in Washington by 2005 has been expanded to improve procedure safety in multiple care settings.
Medication Safety Initiative
An initiative is underway to improve medication safety by focusing on the prevention of error via improved communication between prescribers, pharmacists, and patients.
