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Kathy Wire, JD, MBA, CPHRM, CPPS

Kathryn has extensive experience managing risk and safety functions in acute care, including academic, tertiary and critical access, physician practices of all sizes, long-term care, and regional health systems, including the initiation of programs within large health systems. For ten years, she led her own consulting firm, sharing expertise in those areas. She has volunteered her time and leadership skills for numerous roles, including speaking and writing, for the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and local chapters of those organizations. She is a certified Just Culture trainer and has worked with a number of organizations to integrate Just Culture and shared accountability into their safety culture journey. As a speaker, Kathryn provides a learning experience that combines research and current trends with her experience and examples critical to safety and risk management. She is also a certified Just Culture trainer.

The Importance of Addressing Lab Errors: Uncovering the Causes of Mislabeled and Unlabeled Specimens

In the past 18 months, the Center for Patient Safety PSO collected nearly 500 reports of unlabeled...

Missouri Court confirms that Federal Courts will not recognize state law safety, quality and peer review privileges

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri recently issued an opinion that...

The Vaught Verdict: Where is Vanderbilt?

We have heard voices on all sides of the RaDonda Vaught case and studied the published facts and...

Joint Position Statement Offers Guidance on Lights and Sirens

Collaborators on the project included most national EMS associations. The Center for Patient Safety...

Brian LaCroix Joins the Center for Patient Safety

Bringing National EMS Leadership Focus to the Prevention of Patient Harm

Patient harm is still a challenge throughout healthcare, including EMS

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI - A new, year-long webinar series – a different webinar each month in 2020 –...