Patient Safety

Partnering with Patients and Families to Enhance Safety and Quality

Check out the insightful toolkit: “Partnering with Patients and Families to Enhance Quality and Safety.” This toolkit describes the history of patient safety, and the evolution of patient and family partnerships in safety and quality improvement. The CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure is highlighted with information about best practices and emerging best practices for how hospitals and health systems are responding to this new measure. In addition, this resource includes practical tools for creating and sustaining these essential partnerships with patients and families.

Available at the Resource Center.

The CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure is available on the CDC website:

https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/psc/pssm.html

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Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS)

Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS) is a non-profit organization that brings together patients and families, the Guardians, who participated in the development of the new Patient Safety Structural Measure with other patients, families, and advocates for patient safety. The mission is to inspire all hospitals to authentically adopt the best practices listed in the PSSM and encourage trustworthy reporting. PFPS is collecting and sharing PSSM stories through video.

For information on the webinar:

PFPS US Update on the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure: What Comes Next!