Tag: Patient Safety

My guest for episode #220 is somebody I've wanted to interview for a long time, Dr. Robert Wachter, one of the leading voices in...

My guest for episode #218 is Karen Kiel-Rosser, Vice President/Quality Improvement Officer at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Iowa. You can see her full bio...

This week is the annual Patient Safety Awareness Week, presented by the National Patient Safety Foundation, a non-profit that I like and support. As...

Some of you might know that I'm on the board of a Texas-based non profit, the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation. It's an...

Today's post is hosted over at LinkedIn, as part of my participation in the LinkedIn Influencers series. The post is titled: "The One Thing Google...

In yesterday's blog post ("Safety is always our top priority" - From lip service to daily practice?"), I challenged hospital leaders to back up...

It's really easy to make statements like "patient safety is our top priority." That same statement can be applied to hospital staff, as well. Or,...

Listen Today's guest is my friend John Ervin and we were able to sit down together here in San Antonio to record this episode. John has...

It's easy to point fingers at others who don't do what they know they're supposed to do. Why don't those nurses and doctors properly clean...

For today's "Throwback Thursday," I recently re-watched parts of a DVD I helped produce a few years back for the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare...

Healthcare has become very politicized in the U.S. (and in Canada and other countries). I think the patient safety crisis (and trying to solve...

Today and tomorrow, I'm attending the "Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit" in Irvine, California, as part of my role as a board member for the Louise...