Patient Safety Beat
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December 10, 2025 Patient Safety Beat
What's inside
- Rebecca Jones on recent trends in patient safety data and the effect of AI on events and analysis
- This flu season, DPH underscores importance of state vaccination requirements for health care workers
- MHA, Joint Commission and the state legislature support efforts to prevent workplace violence in health care facilities
Past Issues
July 2, 2025 Patient Safety Beat
What's inside
May 29, 2025 Patient Safety Beat
What's inside
- Q&A with Barbara Lewis on using metrics to demonstrate the value of Patient and Family and Advisory Councils
- Cost of harm in Massachusetts hospitals pegged at $2.14 billion annually; opportunity for significant savings proposed
- Pennsylvania’s patient safety database tops 300,000 reports, a first in 2024
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