Patients For Patient Safety US

03/16/2026

Safety is healthcare’s most sacred promise—but sustaining high reliability requires aligned leadership, strong learning systems, and workforce trust.

“State of Healthcare Safety 2026,” a Press Ganey Signature Report, draws on data from 1.3M employees, 23.5M patients, and 7.1M safety events to examine where safety performance is strengthening, where it remains fragile, and what leadership actions will accelerate progress.

https://www.pressganey.com/resources/e-books/safety-2026/?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_content=pr

Safety is healthcare’s most sacred promise—but sustaining high reliability requires aligned leadership, strong learning systems, and workforce trust.

03/16/2026

ICYMI: Strong patient-clinician partnerships lead to better outcomes. When health care recognizes patients as part of the care team and supports health workers to deliver the care they aspire to provide, safety improves.

During Patient Safety Awareness Week and beyond, explore powerful stories that show how listening, trust, and shared decision-making strengthen care. Hear directly from patients and providers about what healthy care should look like: nam.edu/PatientProviderStories

Healthy Providers, Healthy Patients shares patient-provider stories showing how partnership and clinician support lead to safer, better care.

03/12/2026

AI is rapidly transforming how diagnoses are made—bringing new opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes. But as AI becomes more deeply embedded in clinical decision-making, it also raises important questions about safety, ethics, transparency, and trust.

Join Susan Brown Sheridan, President and CEO of PFPS US, and Divvy K. Upadhyay MD, MPH, CPPS, CPHRM, CPXP, and ECRI and for an upcoming live webinar on March 20 at 2 EST, Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma, where experts will explore how AI can both support and complicate diagnostic decision-making—and what healthcare leaders can do to implement these technologies responsibly.

https://home.ecri.org/blogs/ecri-events/navigating-the-ai-diagnostic-dilemma

March 20, 2026 | 2:00 pm ET Overview AI is rapidly reshaping how diagnoses are made—creating new opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and patient outcomes. At the same time, its expanding role in clinical decision-making introduces important challenges related to patient safety, ethics, ...

03/10/2026

New report from ECRI: Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns in 2026

This year’s #1 concern—Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma—underscores how unchecked dependence on AI tools can increase diagnostic errors, perpetuate bias, and erode critical thinking skills. Although AI has immense potential to improve clinical workflows and expand access to expertise, the rapidly growing use of AI in healthcare raises serious safety and governance challenges.

Several other topics highlight persistent obstacles—such as emergency department boarding and medication safety vulnerabilities in packaging and labeling design—that continue to strain the healthcare system.

A few topics featured this year include:

Reduced access to rural healthcare increases health risks and disparities

Increasing rates of preventable acute diseases

Effects of federal funding cuts on healthcare operations and patient safety

Download the report here:

ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026 highlights emerging critical patient safety challenges and provides actionable recommendations to address them.

03/09/2026

It's Patient Safety Awareness Week and we have resources to share, including a webinar by IHI on March 12 about implications for safety and quality for AI in healthcare:

Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual recognition event in March, is a way to encourage all to learn more about health care safety. During this week, IHI seeks to advance important discussions locally and globally, and inspire action to improve the safety of the health care system — for patient...

03/05/2026

Join us on March 9 at 1:00 EST for our webinar on Advancing Age-Friendly Care: How Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of the Age-Friendly Health Care System can achieve what matters most to older adults.

Every adult deserves safe, equitable, high-quality care grounded in what matters most to them. This webinar will examine OIG, AARP and other relevant research on the disproportionate risks older adults face in healthcare and show how Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care work together to improve outcomes for older adults.

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cdSb7MzRQU-zM6qA1jY-JA #/registration

Every adult deserves safe, equitable, high-quality care grounded in what matters most to them. This webinar will examine OIG, AARP and other relevant research on the disproportionate risks older adults face in healthcare and show how Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Care work together to im...

02/27/2026

We have two webinars coming up! Join us on March 4 at 1:00 EST for our update on the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure and what comes next and on March 9 at 1:00 EST for "Advancing Age-Friendly Care: How Project PIVOT and the 4Ms of the Age-Friendly Care System Can Achieve What Matters to Most Older Adults." Links to both events are here: https://www.pfps.us/

Patient Engagement and empowerment is perhaps the most powerful tool to improve patient safety.

02/23/2026

Mayo Clinic announced today that researchers and solutions developers now have access to decades of high-level, de-identified data from Mercy through Mayo Clinic Platform's secure, privacy-preserving infrastructure.

Through Mayo Clinic Platform, researchers, data scientists and innovators can now analyze larger, more diverse patient populations from both Mayo Clinic and Mercy to explore new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases.

Mayo Clinic and Mercy expand collaboration, providing access to 15.2 million de-identified patient records to accelerate research and transform patient care.

02/23/2026

Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

02/18/2026

How can patients, caregivers, and families be more effectively engaged to improve diagnosis and reduce the risk of diagnostic errors? On March 2, join National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for a public hybrid workshop exploring opportunities, challenges, and strategies to strengthen patient engagement across the diagnostic process. Register here.

Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

02/18/2026

Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, March 4, at 1:00 EST! Many of us across the PFPS US network of Patient Safety Champions and Strategic Partners played a direct role in developing and advocating for the successful adoption of the Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) into the CMS Quality Reporting Program. That was a landmark achievement, but the real work is just beginning.

Why This Moment Is Critical: Starting on April 1st, hospital leaders will begin submitting Attestation Statements to CMS indicating whether the 25 best practices specified in the PSSM are in place at their institutions. CMS will score these statements and publicly report the results for the first time later this year.

We'd love for you to join us! Please sign up here:

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12/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended today's webinar where we talked about Project PIVOT and all the other work we did this year. It's been busy, and there's a lot more to come! In 2026, we're focusing on diagnostic safety as a policy and research priority. Here are some slides from the presentation, and we look forward to working with all of our partners, and are looking forward to welcoming new partnerships as well! Visit us at https://www.pfps.us to learn more.