Safety Culture and Patient Safety – A Vital Combination

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Safety Culture and Patient Safety – A Vital Combination

LalithKumar Solai, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of Patient Safety, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Paul E. Phrampus, MD Director, Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research, Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology, Medical Director, Patient Safety, UPMC Health System, and Medical Director, Wolff Center for Quality, Safety & I

Drs. LalithKumar Solai and Paul Phampus will host a Clinical Grand Rounds to discuss strategies for keeping patients safe while in our care.

Drs. Solai and Phrampus will explore the tenants of high reliability safety organizations and how they can be applied to healthcare to better understand the road that needs to be travelled to improve the safety of patients. In this grand rounds they will discuss how the principles of A Just Culture can help organizations transform their learning systems so that clinicians and staff benefit and grow from the discovery and dissemination of processes that lead to near misses and errors. This presentation will explore the relationship between the culture of safety and patient safety along with understanding of safety in high reliability organizations that can provide constructive insight into how to improve the safety of patients during the delivery of care at UPMC.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this lecture, participants will be able to:

  1. Articulate UPMC’s vision of patient safety.

  2. Describe how patient safety is improved within a behavioral health system. 

  3. Describe how WPH is improving patient’s safety.

Date & Time. February 14, 2020 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location. UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium

For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick at patrickfm@upmc.edu. 

The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.
Continuing Education Credit. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours.  In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference. WPH is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPH maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.
The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist.  These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal.  For more information, call (412) 204-9085.
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital