Karen Feinstein Speaks on Patient Safety Panel at UPMC Shadyside M&M Conference

Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, served as a speaker at the Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference at UPMC Shadyside on May 25. The M&M Conference is a traditional, recurring conference held by medical services at acad...
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Stacie Bonenberger Serves as Patient Safety Judge for AHN MI Trainee Research Day

Jewish Healthcare Foundation Aging Initiatives Program Manager Stacie Bonenberger, MOT, OTR/L, served as judge for the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Medical Institute (MI) Trainee Research Day on May 3. Trainee Research Day is an annu...
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Patient Safety Advocate Carole Hemmelgarn Visits JHF

Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS met with Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) staff during her visit to Pittsburgh on May 4 to discuss ongoing efforts to advance patient safety priorities. Hemmelgarn is a Senior Director of Education at the Me...
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2023 Patient Safety Challenge Fellowship Announced

The 19th annual Patient Safety Fellowship is looking toward the future. During the Patient Safety Challenge Fellowship this summer, fellows will reimagine health care starting from a patient/family perspective and designing it to be va...
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Regional Autonomous Patient Safety Launch Event Plants a Flag in Pittsburgh as an Innovation Hub

Read the RAPS Initiative Overview PDF. The Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) initiative launch event was held February 24 at Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Pittsburgh Technology Council, convening regional s...
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Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein Speaks on Patient Safety Panel at National Quality Forum’s Annual Conference

The 2023 National Quality Forum Annual Conference "Innovation in Action: Driving Change Through Measurement," held February 20-23 in Washington, DC, convened healthcare leaders to highlight public and private sector innovations that ar...
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National Patient Safety Board Full Court Press Team Meeting Discusses Ways to Raise Awareness about Medical Error through Media Coverage

The National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) Full Court Press team meeting held virtually on February 7 provided a forum for a conversation between Full Court Press members and three national journalists on how to raise public interest and...
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New National Patient Safety Board Video Promotes the Need to Make Health Care as Safe as Flying

It's time for a National Patient Safety Board and to kick start the new year, the NPSB Advocacy Coalition released a 30-second video calling viewers to take action to support the creation of an NPSB. The goal of the video is to inform ...
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Karen Wolk Feinstein and Value Capture CEO Ken Segel Discuss Why the U.S. Needs an NPSB

Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein and Value Capture CEO and founding director of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI) Ken Segel discussed why federal action is critical to address preve...
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Four Patient Safety Awards Added to National Competitions

Four additional competitions are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative: TreeHacks at Stanford University, Hollo...
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Meet the Future: JHF Attends 2023 CES Digital Health Summit

Since 2009, the most influential players in healthcare innovation and technology, including the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, have also traveled to CES for its Digital Health Summit in search of innovative ways technology can enhance h...
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Dr. Jason Adelman Earns John M. Eisenberg Award for Individual Achievement

Jason S. Adelman, MD, MS, a chief patient safety officer and associate chief quality officer and friend of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been awarded the Individual Achievement Award in the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety...
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Two Awards Added to National Patient Safety Competitions

Two additional competitions, TAMUhack in Texas and the TeenTech Awards in London, are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional...
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Pittsburgh Business Times: PRHI’s Work Helps Lead to Patient Safety Bill

Over the last two and a half years, Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, has been advocating at the national level for the creation of a National...
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House Bill Establishes Federal Agency Dedicated to Patient Safety

U.S. Representative Nanette Barragán (D-CA) has announced the introduction of H.R.9377 – the National Patient Safety Board Act, legislation to establish an independent federal agency dedicated to preventing and reducing healthcare-rela...
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NPSB Full Court Press Meeting Serves Up the Latest Up Next for Patient Safety Podcast Episode

The National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) Full Court Press meeting held on October 10 provided more than a forum for sharing updates on the effort to establish an NPSB: it also served as the setting for capturing the latest episode of t...
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HackMIT & the Pitt Challenge Recognize Patient Safety Award Winners

The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's (PRHI) Patient Safety Technology Challenge celebrated the completion of two more patient safety awards. As part of the Challenge, PRHI sponsored awards at HackMIT and The Pitt Challenge durin...
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PRHI Funds Five Additional Patient Safety Technology Challenge Competitions Across the Country

Five additional competitions are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative. The Patient Safety Technology Challeng...
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Robert Ferguson Presents ‘Policy and Coalition Work for Establishing a National Patient Safety Board’ at the ACMQ 2022 Annual Conference

Jewish Health Foundation's Chief Policy Officer Robert Ferguson, MPH was a featured speaker at the 2022 Annual Conference of the American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ), leading the session "Policy and Coalition Work for Establishin...
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Jewish Healthcare Foundation Approves over $1M in Grants, Including Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon; Women's Reproductive Health Emergency Grant Fund; and Oakland's LGBTQ-Friendly Senior Housing Community

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1M in grants September 13, including funds to develop the Initiative for Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon University; to establish the Women's Reproductive Health Eme...
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