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Newsletter Archives

Past Issues

March 2018 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Diagnostic error tops patient safety concerns
  • Local safety awareness events join a national effort
  • Patient Safety Stars shine on best day of the year
  • Take 30 minutes a day for patient safety
  • Challenge your assumptions about fall prevention

February 2018 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Facility and fixture design help protect suicidal patients
  • Patient Safety Awareness Week sets the stage for patient engagement
  • Top 7 challenges in ambulatory HAI prevention
  • Treating breast cancer patients with heart

January 2018 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • To avoid missed referrals in ambulatory settings, close the loop
  • 5 questions about safe care for transgender patients with Susan Boisvert
  • New research underscores need for better ways to talk about safety
  • Surgical name tags go viral for safety
  • Joint Commission to cite health care orgs when staff don't wash hands

December 2017 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Most popular: Putting an accent on safety
  • How one hospital learned from a frightening MRI incident
  • Young doctors talk about humility, listening and other approaches to patient safety
  • Be wary of online translation tools
  • Ten tips for getting patient identification right every time

November 2017 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Persistence can pay off to improve staff flu vaccine rates
  • Dr. Al DeMaria talks about why care workers should get flu shots
  • Boosting health literacy is a team effort
  • A 'patient safety net' woven into fabric of care at Beverly Hospital
  • Checklists can guide a patient emergency after office-based surgery

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Featured stories

  • Cost of harm in MA hospitals pegged at $2.14 billion annually (May 2025)
  • Q&A with Bryan Sexton on "bite-sized" well-being interventions (Mar 2025)
  • Annual report focuses on investments in safety (Feb 2025)
  • New CMS rule incentivizes hospitals to attest to safety measures (Summer 2024)

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