Comments on: Personal Stories Emphasize that Quality Care Saves Lives! http://blog.hcfama.org/2009/03/12/personal-stories-emphasize-that-quality-care-saves-lives/ The Ultimate Massachusetts Health Care Insider Information Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Healthy Blog » Quality Care Saves Lives Event Featured on NECN http://blog.hcfama.org/2009/03/12/personal-stories-emphasize-that-quality-care-saves-lives/#comment-2260 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:17:01 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=2541#comment-2260 [...] covered last week’s State House event on health care quality and medical errors with a piece about the work of HCFA and the Consumer Health Quality Council. One of the 4 videos [...]

]]> By: Jim Conway http://blog.hcfama.org/2009/03/12/personal-stories-emphasize-that-quality-care-saves-lives/#comment-2259 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:58:15 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=2541#comment-2259 Once again the team of consumers and staff of Health Care for All, and specifically John McCormack, Robena Reid, Jen Tosca, and Lucilia and Joe Prates, deserve our gratitude. These videos are sobering and effective tools for confronting the voice and face of adverse events and medical errors. HCFA’s growing library has become an impressive resource for individuals like me and organizations like IHI; we have shown them around the world. Others are doing the same. For many people today, when you talk about a hospital acquired infection, you see Ginny.

The partnership that must exist among patients, family members and staff in care is increasingly understood. From these videos we can see clearly that there is a shared goal; confronting the events that happen and working together to eliminate them in the future.

Jim Conway, SVP IHI

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