Category: Healthcare
Patients on the autism spectrum may have special needs when getting medical care.
3-session course equips people to safeguard the welfare of family members under medical care.
Patient Safety Week + Pulse CPSEA Spring Symposium
Patient safety advocate organization Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy is to hold a fundraising Zumba class to bring attention patient safety education & advocacy.
"Patient Activation Through Community Conversations" helps people learn from each other.
Patient safety nonprofit develops worksheet for families.
Raising awareness about implicit racial bias and unequal treatment.
Three leaders in preventing healthcare-associated infections discuss how patients can stay safer in hospital.
Interview Infection-Prevention Experts at Pulse CPSEA's Spring Symposium, 'Infection Prevention: It Begins with You!'
Interview Infection-Prevention Experts at Pulse CPSEA's Spring Symposium, 'Infection Prevention: It Begins with You!'
Who will be YOUR advocate when you need one? Join with a friend or family member and see how to work together.
Editorial by Patient Safety Educator Ilene Corina, President, Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy (formerly PULSE of NY)
Report finds oversight in hospitals may reduce number of deaths; can families and patient advocates achieve a similar result?
Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy can offer $10 "People's Price" to attend symposium — while seats last.
Pulse CPSEA extends $10 "People's Price" for community members — while seats last.
Patient safety advocate to hold fundraising Zumba class to mark Patient Safety Awareness Week
On Giving Tuesday, we need to support efforts to help keep patients and families safe from medical error.
Training helps prevent harm from medical error.
New Board members join The PULSE Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy (formerly PULSE of NY).
Patient safety expert Ilene Corina, head of the PULSE Center for Patient Safety Education and Advocacy, comments on the just-released report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General which gives a poor patient safety score to care provided to Medicare patients in many rehab centers.
Patients on Long Island suffer harm related to their health care on a daily basis. What is the current state patient safety? How can it be improved? The public is invited to take part in an online video conference hosted on July 25 by the PULSE Center for Patient Safety Education and Advocacy.
PULSE of NY's summer training in patient safety will take place over three dates in August.
Opinion by Ilene Corina, President, PULSE of NY
Endoscopies carry risks — of infection or complications from sedation. New techniques and products can reduce those risks. David Schwartz, a proponent of public education about these new methods, will speak about this to the next Professionals for Patient Safety meeting on Long Island.
Medication errors and misuse are among the most common sources of harm to patients. Medication safety expert Michael R. Cohen recently explained the risks and solutions to a symposium hosted by patient safety education and advocacy group PULSE of NY. (Photo: Michael Cohen with PULSE President Ilene Corina.)
PULSE of NY President Ilene Corina reports on a tragic case of medical error highlighting that it's not enough to have a Healthcare Proxy document: we must also ensure that healthcare staff honor it.
Patient safety education and advocacy group PULSE of NY today announced that it is extending for one week its discounted "early bird" ticket price for its upcoming annual symposium, Medication Safety: It Starts Before the Prescription.
This is Patient Safety Awareness Week, when the nation focuses on keeping patients safe from harm while they are treated. Get involved, get trained, and learn about medication safety.
A conversation between a doctor and Ilene Corina of PULSE of NY reveals that even a lucky escape from medication error isn't without consequences.
Long Island drug abuse highlights medication safety issues to be discussed at expert forum.
Annual patient safety conference to focus on medication errors and misuse in 2016.
Professionals for Patient Safety members will learn about HIPAA from NS-LIJ's HIPAA Manager, Debbie Wright.
Long Island's patient safety advocacy and educational organization PULSE of NY yesterday marked World AIDS Day by announcing an informational brochure aimed at helping HIV-positive people and their families reduce the stigma that still surrounds the disease.
PULSE of NY President Ilene Corina has addressed a patient safety conference in Saudi Arabia. She was among the keynote speakers at the first International Quality & Patient Safety Conference held in Jeddah, at which US-based experts met with their Middle Eastern counterparts.
Responding to a new Institute of Medicine report highlighting the prevalence of diagnostic error in health care, patient advocacy group PULSE of NY calls for more education to help families and advocates communicate better with clinicians.
Green Earth Natural Food Market hosts informative evening about preventing medical error.
Patient safety group shows trainees how to protect loved ones from medical error.
