Patient Safety Network
The Coalition sponsors the Patient Safety Network, a group of professionals committed to improving the safety of patients in our healthcare system.
How can the Patient Safety Network help you in your role?
- Build collegial relationships within a wide circle of health-care focused settings:
- Health care organizations
- Health plans
- Government agencies
- List-serve of participants
- Share organizational experiences:
- Best Practices
- Lessons learned—what's worked/what has not
- Tools and strategies
- Policies
- Educational resources/references
- Discuss and Develop approaches for addressing newstandards and regulations:
- JCAHO-National Patient Safety Goals
- LeapFrog/NQF
- Create opportunity for open discussion and idea-generation and try out solutions:
- Address barriers
- Set priorities
- Develop workable solutions
- Potentially establish an area wide 'standard of care'
- Identify pilot sites for initiatives
- Notify when there are...
- Updates and new regulations/standards/requirements
- Educational offerings
What we are...
- Leading Patient Safety in Washington
- Sharing best practices to implement in the region
- Improving patient outcomes
- Advancing implementation of patient safety goals
- Collaborating on meeting regulatory requirements
- Supporting staff performance
- Standardizing measures of compliance
- Identifying ways to leverage resources
- Improving the depth of patient safety efforts
- Collectively assessing available tools and resources to enhance patient safety
- Passionate about quality
- Focused on patient safety
- Transparent
- Patient-focused
- Working together toward common goals
- Partners
What we are not...
- Just another meeting
- Duplicative with other organizations/ societies (i.e. WA Risk Mgt.)
- Just limited to case reviews/RCA
- A “Show & Tell” arena
- Focused on Risk Management or Quality Improvement
- A Political Action Group (we do not define political policy)
