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PATIENT SAFETY DAY

    Welcome To Our Website
1st
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  N.O.H.A.R.M.
   "Patient Safety Day, Today and Everyday"

  National
            Organization for
                  Healthcare industry
                 Accountability and
    Reform in
   Medicine

Our mission is to make healthcare services safe and harmfree for all by becoming a viable, visible part of the debate and decision making regarding the root causes of and solutions for the epidemic number of medical mistakes which kill 195,000 patients in American hospitals every single year.  Patients and families continue to be the fallen victims of an ever-escalating medical malpractice crisis which can only be stopped by simultaneously mandating both individual providers' and hospital organizations' 1) responsibility for ensuring patient safety, and 2) full accountablity for medical error harm which they have caused which may include access to redress in the courts.  We believe that safety and medical mistakes begin in the doctors' offices, hospitals, and academic institutions, not in the courtroom.  

Values:  We value life, fairness and personal resonsibility and accountability for one's actions. We believe that eliminating preventable medical mistakes will reduce the cost of healthcare, reduce the need for medical error victim redress in our court system and will save hundreds of thousands of American lives annually.  As we work to ensure safe & accountable healthcare with a focus on error prevention, harmfree service delivery and post error disclosure and full reparation for damages, we invite you to learn more about us and join us as we continue to organize, grow and develop a voice for patients, families and victims of medical errors.

Announcements and Upcoming Events
  

National Patient Safety Day 2006
July 25th
   Moment of Silence 6pm
   
*Patient safety advocates from 26 states observed the Patient Safety Day Moment of Silence 2004, over 30 states participated in 2005 - let's keep reaching out to others and join patients and families throughout our nation again this year!

*In June 2005, a new patient safety tool, the Patient Prescription Pad received endorsements by top healthcare safety leaders, including Harvard professor Lucian Leape, M.D., Ralph Speken, M.D., Dana Powers, M.D., and hollywood actor, producer and writer Alan Rich.


                                      PATIENT SAFETY DAY
is an annual
National Memorial Moment of Silence & Candelight Vigil
--encouraging safe, accountable healthcare---
 honoring all injured or deceased
Victims of Medical Errors
    
            Time:  6:00PM
            MOMENT OF SILENCE  AND CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
             -A TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF ALL THE
              VICTIMS' OF PREVENTABLE MEDICAL MISTAKES
             -Linking our passion, hope and work towards the lighting of                        the path to safe and accountable healthcare in memory and                      remembrance of all those who lost their lives, or quality of life to medical mistakes.  
       Place:  Wherever you are, at home, work, with friends or
             family, please join hearts with others across our nation in
             honoring the lives of victims' of medical mistakes by
             observing the moment of silence at 6pm.  

Books, Laws--Hope:

*People Making a Difference--one ripple at a time--speaking out, writing books, changing laws to promote safe, responsible and accountable medical care.  
  
*Lewis's Law (So Carolina): In Memory of Lewis, 2005
*Taylor's Law (Mass.): In Memory of Taylor, 2004
*Lisa's Law (NY): In Memory of Mikey, Lisa & NY medical error victims
*Patient Safety Laws (Florida): Public Access to Adverse Incident Data & Three  Stikes You're Out laws 2004
*California Proposition 103

*Wall of Silence, by Gibson & Singh, 2003
*Uninformed Consent: What Hospitals Don't Tell You, by Ray McEachern, 2002
  
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2006* PATIENT SAFETY DAY PARTICIPANTS & SUPPORTERS
Patient Safety Day is a national consumer grassroots effort aimed at improving the quality of patient safety throughout the healthcare spectrum.  This day is dedicated to patients and families who lost their lives/loved ones or suffered severe injury from preventable medical errors.  On Patient Safety Day consumers and  business and professional groups throughout North America are invited to observe the Memorial Moment of Silence and the Candlelight Vigil at 6pm in memory of those who have lost their lives or quality of life to medical errors.  Everyone is encouraged to participate in this patient safety movement effort on Patient Safety Day, July 25, 2005 and invited to promote improvement(s) in patient safety measures, including the use of the "6th Vital Sign" and the "Patient Prescription Pad" in a national effort to make healthcare safer.  Join in the National Memorial Moment of Silence and Candlelight Vigil at 6pm (wherever you are at that moment, light a candle of hope and remembrance at 6pm, and throughout the day wear a patient safety day button, talk with friends, employees or healthcare providers about medical errors and patient safety, share new technologies/tools or efforts (e.g., the "6th Vital Sign," the Patient Prescription Pad) being used to eliminate preventable medical errors and improve patient safety or create your own unique strategies to help create an enhanced consciousness of medical errors and patient safety on this day-and everyday).    Every effort, every person, and every patient saved from the suffering of preventable medical errors, counts.

PATIENT SAFETY PLEDGE
"FIRST
  DO NO HARM,
 HEAL THE SICK,
  DISCLOSE THE TRUTH"

Contact:  pattioregan@netscape.net if you would like more information about Patient Safety Day, July 25, 2006, or the Patient Prescription Pad.  Every effort towards patient safety counts. Thank you for visiting this site and engaging in the Patient Safety Movement.  
Links:

The Commonwealth Fund:  www.cmwf.org
Floridians For Patient Protection: www.Floridiansforpatientprotection.org
Center for Justice and Democracy: www.centerjd.org
Medscape medical/drug information site: www.medscape.com
Patient Safety Cleveland:  www.patientsafetycle.bravehost.com

 

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