Patient Safety Awareness Week: Highlighting Care & Harm Prevention

Preventing harm in health care settings is a public health concern. We all have a role to play in advancing safe health care, as everyone interacts with the health care system at some point in life.

The Facts:

• The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 million deaths.
• Additionally, some 40 percent of patients experience harm in ambulatory and primary care settings with an estimated 80 percent of these harms being preventable.
• Some studies suggest that as many as 250,000 to 400,000 deaths occur in the United States each year as a result of errors or preventable harm.

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Raising Awareness for Patient Safety
Every March, Patient Safety Awareness Week encourages everyone to learn more about health care safety and inspires action to improve the health care system’s safety for patients and the workforce. At Pathway Health, we are proud to support patient safety by providing organizations with tools and resources that keep them on a path of knowledge and increased quality of care.

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