PIPSQC is pleased to share the recent publication in BMJ Open Quality, entitled "Severe illness getting noticed sooner - SIGNS-for-Kids: developing an illness recognition tool to connect home and hospital." [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the following two change packages published by the Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) Network: [...]
 

PIPSQC is pleased to share the new publication in The BMJ, entitled "Patient safety after implementation of a coproduced family centered communication programme: multicenter before and after intervention study." Results from this PCORI-funded study on improving communication between parents of hospitalized children and clinicians provide insights that could significantly reduce medical errors harmful to patients. [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the new publication in Patient Experience Journal entitled "Partnering with pediatric patients and families in high reliability to identify and reduce preventable safety events." This article describes how one hospital built a toolkit to engage family members as partners to improve safety. The organization applied high reliability concepts to identify, recognize, and support projects at the hospital to successfully use patients' perspectives to design improvements. [...]
 

PIPSQC is pleased to share that PIPSQC Ambassador Lead and Founder/Director of Justin's HOPE, Dale Micalizzi, is offering 3 more IHI Forum Scholarships in Justin Micalizzi's name this year in partnership with IHI. [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to announce a new article published in Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics - "Partnering with Parents and Families to Provide Safer Care: Seeing and Achieving Safer Care through the Lens of Patients and Families" - co-authored by PIPSQC Ambassador Lead, Dale Ann Micalizzi, and PIPSQC Ambassadors, Thomas Dahlborg and Dr. Hannah Zhu. [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to announce the upcoming CAPHC Webinar, "Reimagining the Roles of Patient Safety, Quality and Patient Experience" is set to take place this Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 (11:00am - 12:30pm EST). [...]

Justin's HOPE Project and IHI are extremely proud to announce the Justin Micalizzi Memorial IHI Scholarship in loving memory of Justin A. Micalizzi who died at the age of 11 due to a medical error. Learning from this devastating loss - and making a difference that will improve pediatric health care - has become a quest for Justin's family. [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to announce, on behalf of PIPSQC Ambassador Lead, Dale Ann Micalizzi and Dr. Hannah Zhu, a Survey Initiative to Improve Paediatric Patient Safety Internationally.

Creating a safety net for families when a new diagnosis or traumatic event occurs is healing and necessary. Please visit Justin's HOPE Healthcare Blog at this link to complete one of the short surveys and help improve the care delivered to paediatric patients and families around the world.

Dale is also a CMS Partnership for Patients workgroup member, "Care of Children in General Hospitals". [...]

PIPSQC Ambassadors

Teaching: Has your organization ever considered that parents whose children have experienced preventable medical harm and/or death would be interested in helping healthcare do better?  Here’s a compassionate group of parents and providers that are ready to do just that.

PIPSQC Ambassador Team is devoted to working together authentically to improve pediatric healthcare through collaboration, trust and partnerships. [...]