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Newsletter Archives

Past Issues

November 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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October 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • 'Healing After Harm'
  • Five questions with Linda K. Kenney
  • Training with mannequins is enhancing dialysis safety
  • How ER's are treating behavioral health patients safely
  • What's wrong with these photos?
  • October is health literacy month

September 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • How a new Rx database is combating opioid scourge
  • Five Questions with James S. Gessner, MD
  • A fresh strategy to prevent patient falls
  • Keeping patients safe and healthy after they go home
  • A look at adverse events in rehabilitation hospitals

Summer 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Introducing the Patient Safety Navigator
  • Five Questions With Robert Truog, MD
  • Nearly 1,500 adverse events reported to the state last year
  • What do the adverse event report data tell us?
  • Atrius Health is helping providers resolve patient harm incidents

June 2016 Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • An inspection, introspection, and lessons learned
  • Five questions with Susan Plass Lawson
  • Mount Auburn Medical Associates raises cancer screening rate
  • Making sense of medical error death reports
  • Putting patient advising into action at Boston Medical Center
  • Why 'deviance' becomes the new normal
  • Leadership commitment to antibiotic stewardship program

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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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