Pulse CPSEA & Patient Safety Awareness Week, TakeCHARGE Campaign

The next meeting of Pulse Professionals for Patient Safety, Pulse CPSEA’s monthly networking event for healthcare professionals and community members, will be held on Monday, March 9th at Panera Bread in Bellmore, NY to kick off Patient Safety Awareness Week at 7:00 PM.

People are preparing to be better, safer patients during Patient Safety Awareness Week 2020 (March 8 -14) by starting to take the “5 Steps to Safer Healthcare” identified by Pulse’s new TakeCHARGE campaign.

The TakeCHARGE Campaign, which starts this week with an introduction to the 5 Steps, includes partners such as The Joint Commission, The Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care and advocacy services such as A Listening Ear in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Healthwhiz Solutions of Long Island, New York.

This grassroots campaign aims to encourage people to actively prepare to be patients instead of waiting until they enter the healthcare system where they may be given admission packets and questionnaires that they may not be able to answer.

Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy, which is spearheading the campaign, has been a community-based patient safety organization for more than twenty years.

Pulse President and patient safety advocate Ilene Corina says, "We can't sit back and expect the healthcare system to get it right 100% of the time, especially if members of the public are not well prepared to be patients." Corina's son died thirty years ago this week from complications following a tonsillectomy, and during Patient Safety Awareness Week she plans to get more people involved in error prevention instead of blame after the fact.

To learn more about the TakeCHARGE Campaign visit www.takeharge.care

For interviews about the TakeCHARGE Campaign contact 516.579.4711