Four individuals who have made significant contributions to eliminating " preventable patient deaths " and raising public awareness in this regard are commended
Irvine, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Safety Campaign Foundation patient (Patient Safety Movement Foundation, referred to as "PSMF") is a commitment to global non-2030 to achieve zero preventable deaths in patients with the goal of For-profit organization that announced the winners of its 2020 Humanitarian Awards at an online ceremony held on February 8, 2021, including Steve Burrows, Vonda Vaden Bates, Marty Hatlie, and Barb Pelletreau. The Humanitarian Award recognizes individual leaders who have made significant contributions to eliminating preventable patient deaths or raising public awareness in the past year.
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David B. Mayer, MD, CEO of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation said: “To achieve our goal of achieving zero preventable deaths by 2030, the key measure is to unite people around the world and work together to improve patient safety. We are very honored I can pay tribute to every individual leader who has worked hard for this cause for their outstanding efforts to raise public awareness of this important issue and improve the public’s patient experience."
This year, the Humanitarian Award has three categories of awards for the winners: Judie Burrows Award, Michael Seres Award and Steven Moreau Award. The Judie Burrows Award is established to recognize individuals who have told stories about preventable injuries or deaths caused by such injuries in the past year and have caused significant repercussions in the public domain. The Michael Seres Award was established to commemorate the lifelong patient safety advocate Michael Seres who passed away in May 2020. The award recognizes individuals who have contributed to personal and family participation, public awareness, and public participation in advancing patient safety. The goal of the Steven Moreau Award is to recognize hospital administrators who have devoted a lot of enthusiasm to improving patient safety in hospitals. This year's winners include:
- Steve Burrows , the screenwriter and director of the famous documentary "Bleed Out", won the Judie Burrows Award for his HBO film's tremendous influence in raising public awareness of patient safety issues. The documentary tells the story of Steve Burrows' mother, Judie Burrows, who suffered a preventable medical error during a partial hip surgery, and this incident suffered for the rest of her life. Since the film "Bleed Out" was released in December 2018, more than 10 million viewers have watched the film on HBO. Before the film was released, Burrows, his wife Margo and their family believed that they were alone on this difficult and difficult road, but within the first 24 hours of the film’s broadcast, they received it on Facebook. Thousands of stranger messages related to the Judie Burrows story arrived.
- Vonda Vaden Bates , since her husband Charle “Yogiraj” Bates II died of preventable venous thromboembolism in 2012, has been committed to raising public awareness and participation in preventable hospital deaths. She played an indispensable role in the process from the concept of #uniteforsafecare event to its successful holding. This is a project sponsored by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, the American Association of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Leapfrog Group and the International Association for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) co-organized events aimed at arousing public attention to system-wide improvements to ensure better health workers and patients’ safe outcomes. The Foundation awarded Bates the Michael Seres Award for her unremitting efforts to raise public awareness and contribute to the success of the #uniteforsafecare campaign and the event sponsored by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in September 2020.
- Marty Hatlie , also the winner of the Michael Seres Award. Hatlie has been responsible for lifelong leadership in the field of patient safety since serving as the executive director of the American Patient Safety Foundation. However, the humanitarian award presented this time is merely a recognition of the outstanding work that Hatlie has done in the past 12 months. Hatlie served as the co-chair of the March for Patient Safety (later renamed #uniteforsafecare) initiative. He devoted most of 2019 and 2020 to the launch of the initiative.
- Barb Pelletreau , Senior Vice President of Patient Safety from CommonSpirit Health (formerly Dignity Health), Barb Pelletreau, received the Steven Moreau Award. Pelletreau is recognized for her outstanding leadership ability in managing more than 150 hospital systems. She leads the effective development of patient safety improvement with a transparent and candid attitude. Under her leadership, Dignity Health made a commitment consistent with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation's evidence-based actionable patient safety solution (APSS), and reiterated its dedication to zero preventable patient deaths Thanks to this dedication and solemn promise, the hospital became a five-star patient safety hospital approved by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation last year.
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation launched the Humanitarian Award in 2013 to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to promoting patient safety. For more information about the award and past winners, please visit: https://patientsafetymovement.org .
To watch the awards ceremony, please visit https://patient.sm/Humanitarian-Awards .
About the Patient Safety Movement Foundation: There are more than 200,000 unnecessary hospital deaths in the United States each year, while 4.8 million patients worldwide die from similar causes. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is a global non-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate preventable deaths related to hospital errors. PSMF uniquely unites patients and patient rights representatives, healthcare providers, medical technology companies, governments, employers, and private payers into the same business. From actionable patient safety solutions and industry open data promises to the World Patient Safety and Technology Summit, PSMF will not stop struggling until the goal of zero preventable patient deaths is achieved.