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Developing a Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Healthcare Quality and Safety in the Hospital Setting
CHICAGO, December 1, 2009 – Improving the quality and safety of healthcare in the United States is one of the most significant challenges facing the American healthcare system today. A critical step on the path towards safer, higher quality care is encouraging and facilitating patient and family engagement to improve healthcare experiences, care delivery, and outcomes.
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| Levine Joins CAPS Board of Directors
CHICAGO, November 25, 2009 – Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) announced today the appointment of Alan Levine to their board of directors to help advance the organization’s vision, mission and goals.
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| November is National Family Caregivers Month
CHICAGO, October 14, 2009 – Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS), along with numerous national organizations, major corporations and community-based groups around the country, will celebrate National Family Caregivers Month (NFC Month) in November to thank, educate, support and empower family caregivers.
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| Chicago Workshop Video Released
CHICAGO, September 23, 2009- Dear Friend of CAPS. Recently I had the honor of giving the keynote address at the Coalition for Quality and Patient Safety of Chicagoland’s annual summit. As part of my presentation, I debuted the release of the Chicago Patient Safety Workshop video filmed last summer. The workshop brought together 90 consumers and providers working in partnership to design better systems to ensure patient safety. Those in attendance at the summit heard and embraced the message of safety through partnership embodied in the voices and stories of those in the video.
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| Two CAPS Board Members Named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare
CHICAGO, September 21, 2009 – CAPS Co-Founder and President Susan Sheridan, and CAPS Board Member Helen Haskell, both appear on Modern Healthcare magazine’s prestigious 2009 list, 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.
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| CAPS Becomes Pioneer Signatory of Global Principles for Socially Responsible Associatons & Nonprofits
CHICAGO, August 4, 2009 – Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) has joined a growing list of trade, professional, cause-related organizations and business partners that have become Pioneer Signatories of the Global Principles for Socially Responsible Associations and Nonprofits.
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| As Patient Safety Movement Gains National Momentum, CAPS Fortifies Board - Haskell and Padilla Join CAPS Board of Directors
CHICAGO, July 23, 2009 – As the spotlight on patient safety intensifies across the country, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) announced today the appointment of Helen Haskell and James Padilla to their board of directors to help advance the organization’s vision, mission and goals.
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| Participants Sought for Healthcare-Acquired Infections Stakeholder Meetings
CHICAGO, July 21, 2009 - Each year, 1.7 million people acquire healthcare-associated infections in hospitals. 99,000 of them die. Treating healthcare-associated infections costs an additional $26 billion every year. Yet, many infections are preventable.
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| CAPS Releases New Transitions in Care Toolkit for Consumers
CHICAGO, July 10, 2009 – Hospital discharge is a time during which patients and families are at their most vulnerable. There is so much information they need to know, just when they may be least able to absorb, remember and act on it.
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| AHRQ Podcast- Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Councils
CHICAGO, July 10, 2009 - This 3-minute podcast features an interview with AHRQ Director Dr. Carolyn Clancy who discusses how health care organizations in the U.S. are creating these councils to help reduce health care risks and improve health care quality. Dr. Clancy discusses the AHRQ-funded project with Aurora Health Care in partnership with Consumers Advancing Patient Safety and Midwest Airlines to build a community-based patient safety advisory council in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
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| Impact of Medical Error Survey
CHICAGO, May 20, 2009You are invited to take part in a research project investigating the effect of medical error on the family members of the patient. This patient-centered research will lead with the patient’s perspective toward improved patient safety in healthcare.
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| Sheridan Named to Modern Healthcare's List of Top 25 Women in Healthcare
CHICAGO, April 20, 2009 – Modern Healthcare Magazine, one of the country’s most well respected trade publications, has named Susan Sheridan, co-founder and president of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) to their list of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare for 2009.
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| CAPS Launches New and Improved Online Resource Collection
CHICAGO, April 2, 2009 – Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) is pleased to announce that we are now using Delicious to manage our online resource collection. This social networking tool allows CAPS to update the resource collection in a very timely manner. Using bookmarks and annotations, our members will now have access to a select set of relevant resources chosen specifically for them. The items are included in our collection to not only create awareness of patient safety issues of interest to consumer leaders, but to assist with their development of grassroots awareness programs, grant writing and other strategies that support getting the word out about the consumer’s role in patient safety.
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| Martins Joins CAPS Board of Directors
CHICAGO, March 27, 2009 – Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) announced today the appointment of Rebecca Martins to their board of directors to help advance the organization’s vision, mission and goals. Martins will help provide support to CAPS in promoting patient-centered healthcare.
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| CAPS Joins AARP Coalition of Healthcare and Consumer Leaders to Address the Nursing Shortage
CHICAGO, March 16, 2009 – The need and urgency to reform the U.S. healthcare system, particularly by addressing the nursing shortage, was supported recently by CAPS who joined consumers, businesses and healthcare providers to launch the Champion Nursing Coalition.
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