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World Patient Safety Day 2019

The Center for Patient Safety (CPS) is excited to join the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign...

Center for Patient Safety Update

A Personal Note from Alex Christgen:

I took over as Executive Director at the Center for Patient...

15 Leadership Characteristics that Support a Culture of Self-Care

In a recent post we shared information on ways health care organizations can strengthen a culture...

Fostering a Culture of Self-Care

Culture is one of the most important tenants of patient safety. Health care entities are adopting...

Download the 2018 Annual PSO Report

The Center for Patient Safety (CPS) is certified as a federally-designated Patient Safety...

Happy EMS Week!

Do something that counts and listen to your EMS people.

A few months ago, I wrote a blog about...

Nurses Week 2019

Nurse’s week is coming to an end and I would like to give a shout out to all my fellow nurses! I...

What Gets Measured Gets Managed

Healthcare organizations are certainly not lacking data. We measure everything and anything that...

Are Paramedics Ignoring Hand Hygiene?

“Many paramedics ignore hand hygiene rules, study finds”