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January 31, 2024 • Patient Safety, Safercare Texas cardiovascular disease, heart health, heart health prevention, heart month,
February is known as the month of love – a month full of chocolates, flowers and celebrating those people love most. To truly celebrate the month of love, people must first ensure they are properly caring for the vessel everyone is celebrating – the heart. American Heart Month occurs each February. This month-long celebration is…
April 26, 2022 • Patient Safety, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
The recent conviction of RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse prosecuted for a fatal drug error in 2017, has brought to the forefront the importance of patient safety and what can be done to avoid such a scenario in the future. Two years ago, the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) at The University of North…
March 26, 2021 • Patient Safety, Safercare Texas, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta Lillee Gelinas, MS, RN, CPPS, FAAN, remembers the first patient she ever lost. She was in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps and missed a respiratory depression that ultimately led to the patient’s death. Devastating experiences like that drove the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) to create the nation’s first and only…
March 25, 2020 • Community, COVID-19, Patient Safety, Research
By Diane Smith The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is giving the Fort Worth Fire Department 5,000 surgical masks and calling on health organizations across the region to make similar donations to first responders in need. “This donation continues to demonstrate the relationship between the Fort Worth Fire Department and…
February 12, 2018 • Patient Safety
By Jan Jarvis For a brief moment, 13-year-old Quinn Kott seemed to bounce back from whatever was racking his body, causing nausea, garbled speech and loss of consciousness. He had spent more than two hours slumped in a wheelchair at Hill Country Memorial Hospital’s emergency room in Fredericksburg, Texas, where the staff was inattentive…
February 7, 2018 • Patient Safety
By Jan Jarvis Lessons learned from tragedy – both in the skies and on the ground – will be addressed during UNT Health Science Center’s third annual Patient Safety Summit starting Thursday at the Fort Worth Club. During the third annual summit on the “Ethical Imperative of Highly Reliable and Safe Patient Care,” participants will…
October 27, 2016 • Patient Safety
By Jeff Carlton Senator Jane Nelson, whose support for a culture change around safety in health care led to the creation of the Institute for Patient Safety at UNT Health Science Center, will receive an advocacy award on Thursday in Fort Worth. The inaugural Patient Safety Advocacy Award will go to the senator from Flower Mound…
May 17, 2016 • Community, Health Institutes, Patient Safety, Research
By Jeff Carlton A collaborative institute launching Tuesday at UNT Health Science Center will focus on patient safety problems and preventable medical errors, crises that contribute to 251,000 deaths annually in the United States. The Health Science Center’s new Institute for Patient Safety will take a lead role in professional and community education, research…
October 19, 2015 • Patient Care, Patient Safety, Professional and Continuing Education
By Betsy Friauf Dale Akers lost a rib to a medical error. Register now Leading Innovation in Patient Safety: Best Practices and Global Strategies Summit An incorrect diagnosis led a surgeon to remove one of his ribs in the mistaken belief it would cure the pain in Akers’ chest and abdomen and his debilitating…
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