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Join the BWH Patient Safety Team in celebrating National Patient Safety Awareness Week March 2 -8. This year’s focus is Patient Safety: A Road Taken Together. During Patient Safety Week, the BWH Center for Clinical Excellence reminds you to do the following:
Test your knowledge. Complete the crossword puzzle on the insert of this issue of BWH Bulletin. Submit your completed puzzle by March 8 to Pilar Condé in the Center for Clinical Excellence to be eligible to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Runners-up are eligible for $5 Safety Bucks for the Cafeteria.
File a safety report. You can do this any time you have a patient safety concern, even if no actual patient is involved. The Patient Safety team wants to hear from you about systems issues that pose a patient safety risk before an adverse event happens. Go to the Start menu on your computer and select Partners Applications to get to safety reporting. Staff who file a safety report between midnight on Saturday, March 2, and 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, at 11:59 p.m., will receive two BWH Safety Bucks to use in the Cafeteria.
Brush up on safety literature. Visit www.bwhpikenotes.org scrolling announcements to read a patient safety newsletter featuring information on hand hygiene, safety reporting and the patient safety goals.
Ask questions. Members of the Patient Safety team will be outside the Cafeteria from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, March 3, through Thursday, March 6.
The Patient Safety Team at BWH is part of the Center for Clinical Excellence. For more information, contact Pilar Condé at ext. 2-4304.