PATIENT SAFETY MOVEMENT FOUNDATION
ZERO preventable deaths
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Each year it is estimated that between 200,000-400,000 patients die from preventable incidents in American hospitals every year. It is the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) believes one patient death is one too many. As such our mission is to eliminate preventable patient deaths. PSMF is requesting funding to support efforts to recruit and retain committed hospital partners, increase healthcare technology company open data sharing pledges, develop Actionable Patient Safety Solutions and produce the Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. These efforts saved more than 93,276 lives last year, yet there is more work to be done to get to ZERO.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS)
The Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (
APSS) is a toolkit provided to our network at no cost. The APSS will be reformatted to include a quality-safety component outlining the leadership guidelines, as well as how to improve the clinical workflow with a step-by-step map that will complement the Patient Safety Movement Foundation Patient Aider App.
Each APSS is developed by a workgroup comprised of patient safety experts, healthcare technology professionals, hospital leaders, and patient advocates. The Foundation is proud to connect as many stakeholders as possible to focus on how these challenges can best be addressed. The Foundation’s Board of Directors also contribute and review the APSS prior to their annual dissemination.
Outreach and Education
The PSMF is increasing its outreach and education among providers and consumers of healthcare. This includes:
-PatientAider: The development of, PatientAider, a mobile application built to cut through the medical jargon to help the public and their loved ones navigate through their care as a hospitalized patient, exposing them to common errors and ways to mitigate risk, speak up and advocate for themselves and their loved ones.
-Community Outreach and Education: locally, nationally and internationally. We host events to raise awareness about medical errors, the third leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer. Our objective is to raise awareness and bring attention to the causes of preventable deaths in hospitals among all communities and vulnerable populations especially seniors, by empowering providers, patients, and families through education of medical terminology, protocols, and medical errors so they may better advocate for themselves and loved ones. We will also be going into school districts starting in Southern California and going national with this education. Globally, we partner with local Ministers of Health, healthcare providers, associations, organizations and NGO's to address the most pressing health needs with an emphasis on patient safety.
Value of Becoming a Partner
Make a Commitment
Join the 4,700+ international hospitals and help us improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths. By making a commitment, your hospital stands in solidarity with us that we can only achieve ZERO preventable deaths by engaging all hospitals.
Become a Partner
Diverse in type, size and impact, every organization across the healthcare ecosystem can help us spread our mission to the clients, customers and members you engage as a group for each member to elect themselves as the leader in their institution to drive us towards zero preventable deaths. We encourage you to outline how you can get the word out.
Investing in the future of healthcare professionals and students
We are investing in future healthcare professionals and students studying to become doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and even behavioral therapists, so patients can live tomorrow.
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation will place significant energy into Patient Safety Curriculum & Education development for healthcare professionals from 2018-2020. We have assembled a Workgroup to create a core curriculum that can be applied across all health professions. Dr. Steven Scheinman and Dr. Margrit (Peggy) Shoemaker, from Geisinger Commonwealth, Co-Chair the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s Patient Safety Curriculum Workgroup. This dedicated group is in the midst of developing core curricula which will include the following elements: Ownership of patient safety and quality embedded within the professional identity formation for all health caregivers; Core curriculum common to all health professions. The fundamental elements of the core curriculum will include: Leadership training Inter-professional team-based models Definition of competencies to be achieved, outcomes to be assessed and milestones (which will be specialty-specific) to be identified for each stage of one’s professional career (UME, GME and unsupervised practice, across all professions) Focusing beyond care of the individual patient to address systems of care
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Chamber of Commerce 2017
External reviews
Photos
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of media partnerships developed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have continued to partner with the media in order to reach more stakeholders to raise awareness about medical errors and how to improve patient safety.
Number of health outcomes improved
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS)
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We measure the number of preventable deaths saved by committed hospitals. This has increased significantly from ~60 the first year reported to saving 366,353 lives since 2015.
Number of manuals produced
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS)
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) are evidence-based clinical best practice documents which, when implemented, can dramatically reduce preventable mortality in hospitals.
Number of unique website visitors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the total number of new website users we had, a 30% increase over the last year.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Our volunteers have expanded for a few reasons, rolling out volunteer Regional Networks across the world, and also an expansion of staff which allows for support to coordinate and manage volunteers.
Number of stories successfully placed in the media
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Foundation's media coverage has significantly grown since 2015.
Total number of new organization members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of hospitals, healthcare technology companies and committed partners slowed in 2018 because we focused on the quality of existing partnerships over gaining new hospitals/partners.
Number of press articles published
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
The Foundation continues to release press releases to wire services to help spread awareness related to our mission of ZERO preventable deaths.
Number of rallies/events/conferences/lectures held to further mission
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Our #uniteforsafecare event as well as two in-person demonstrations in Newport Beach and Washington, DC
Number of meetings or briefings held with policymakers or candidates
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Patient Safety Movement schedules annual trips to Capitol Hill to meet with policymakers to spread awareness about in-hospital patient deaths and the associated action plans that can save lives.
Total number of organization members
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Total organizations participating as part of the PSMF network has been steadily rising since 2015.
Number of high-profile speakers or participants participating
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Value of Becoming a Partner
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Keynote and Featured speakers boomed in 2020 during our #uniteforsafecare event. Belinda Carlisle from "The Go-Go's," President Bill Clinton, Senators Young, Whitehouse Durbin, just to name a few.
Number of people on the organization's email list
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We grew significantly due to our public-facing awareness campaign #uniteforsafecare
Number of products distributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Outreach and Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Storytelling is an extremely important part of our advocacy work; we produce films about patients that have lived to tell their story, families that have lost loved ones & providers sharing successes.
Number of distribution outlets for products
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS)
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
36 of the 65 of our partners commit to disseminating our Actionable Evidence-Based Practices within their organizations.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation was founded in 2012 with an ambitious goal of achieving ZERO preventable deaths.
To accomplish this mission, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation is actively working to enable positive changes in patient care and safety throughout the U.S. and beyond. To provide transformational medical technologies and services that shape a new age of patient care, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) aims to bring together stakeholders from across the healthcare ecosystem to identify the challenges that contribute to patient deaths, share data generated by healthcare technologies, and to develop and implement more Actionable Patient Safety Solutions that improve patient care and save lives.
Actionable Evidence-Based Practices: Develop evidence-based blueprints to guide clinicians in eliminating preventable patient harm.
Data Transparency: Stress the vital necessity of open data sharing to track progress in improving patient care.
Aligned Incentives: Drive systemic payer policy changes that focus on the quality over the quantity of care.
National Patient Safety Board: Advocate for an independent multidisciplinary team that researches harm events and solution
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. Unify the healthcare ecosystem (annual summit, webinars, hospitals, healthcare technology companies, government agencies, policy makers, patient advocates, clinicians, engineers, payers, etc.)
2. Identify the challenges that are killing patients and create actionable solutions (Actionable Evidence Based Practices) to mitigate them.
3. Ask hospitals to implement Actionable Evidence-Based Practices (AEBP)
4. Ask healthcare technology companies to share the data their devices are purchased for in order to create a Patient Data Super Highway to help identify at-risk patients
5. Promote transparency and aligned incentives
6. Promote patient dignity & love
7. Educate providers, health professionals in training, patients, and families about patient safety
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
To eliminate preventable deaths, the PSMF have been successful in connecting the dots between people, ideas, and technologies that are traditionally siloed in our healthcare systems through three key strategies. These include: Hospital Commitments & Technology Pledges, Actionable Evidence-Based Practices (AEBP), and the Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit and continuous outreach and education into the larger community in general and marginalized communities in particular.
We encourage healthcare institutions who joined the Movement, to make public commitments to implement a minimum of one Actionable Patient Safety Solution at their medical institution.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Individuals across the U.S. and around the world are benefiting from donations to the PSMF. Funding was and will continue to be used to expand PSMF's ability to eliminate preventable patient deaths by 2030 by supporting the recruitment of new hospital partners and the retention of more than 4,793 existing committed hospitals in 46 countries around the world including the U.S. and by increasing the number of open data pledges signed by 92 healthcare technology companies.
In addition, charitable funding will also be used to expand the implementation of the 18 Actionable Evidence-Based Practices (AEBP) across the U.S. and around the world, and by developing new ones throughout 2020. The Foundation will also expand the breadth of knowledge regarding emerging innovations and best practices among healthcare leaders, medical technology companies, government officials and policymakers. As a result, donations will contribute to saving the lives of an estimated 200,000 patients that die from preventable death in the U.S. every year and the over 4.8 million around the world. We will also be conducting a massive outreach and education into the community at large with special emphasis on the elderly.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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PATIENT SAFETY MOVEMENT FOUNDATION
Board of directorsas of 04/25/2023
Dr. Michael Ramsay
Baylor University Medical Center
Term: 2020 -
Steven J. Barker
University of Arizona; Masimo; University of California, San Diego
Robin Betts
Kaiser Permanente
Alicia Cole
Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients (ASAP)
Omar Ishrak
Medtronic
David B. Mayer
MedStar Health
Charlie Miceli
University of Vermont Medical Center
Jannicke Mellin-Olsen
European Society of Anaesthesiology
Jim Messina
The Messina Group
Javier Davila
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Mike Durkin
Imperial College London and the University of the West of England
Najmedin Meshkati
University of Southern California
Sarah Kiani
Masimo Foundation for Ethics
Abbasseh Towfigh
Ayeneh Foundation
Michael Ramsay
Baylor University Medical Center
Joe Kiani
Masimo
Philip D. Lumb
Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
Vonda Vaden Bates
10th Dot
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.