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Newsletter Archives

Past Issues

January 17, 2024: Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Assistant Commissioner for Health Equity lays out actions for improving maternal health
  • “Levels of Maternal Care” classification to improve health outcomes
  • New survey of patient and family engagement in MA perinatal units

December 12, 2023: Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Broad support for new Roadmap to Health Care Safety voiced at MA Health Policy Forum
  • Real-time EHR monitoring yields strong, actionable data on health care safety
  • Q&A: Three experts on the SafeCare study and its implications for future patient safety action
  • Leaders discuss ways to address structural inequities that pose a risk to safety
  • PFACs emerge from the pandemic ready to enhance the patient voice at hospitals and ACOs

November 20, 2023: Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • "Passion for quality and patient safety" drives commitment at QPSD
  • New strategies emerge to stem workplace violence in hospitals
  • Safety news roundup

October 18, 2023: Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • CARe marks growing influence in MA with 10th annual forum
  • Betsy Lehman Center to support, bolster PFACs statewide
  • OUD increases risk for SMM regardless of race or ethnicity

September 21, 2023: Patient Safety Beat

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What's inside

  • Real-time EHR monitoring yields strong, actionable data
  • Trained peers listen and support when times are tough
  • Sepsis Month: New CDC guidelines, MA public campaign

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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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