How will the Betsy Lehman Center improve patient safety?
Promoting a culture focused on patient safety requires a collaborative approach. The Betsy Lehman Center works to develop and promote relationships with health care entities, providers and consumers with the mutual goal being improvement in patient safety. The center serves as a clearinghouse for the development, evaluation and dissemination of information related to patient safety. The center sponsors patient safety education and training. Through educational endeavors the center identifies best practices which will support health care providers in their efforts to improve patient safety. The Betsy Lehman Center will collect and analyze patient safety information received from patients, families, health care entities and health care providers. This information will be monitored for the emergence of trends, and if they occur, patient safety alerts will be issued. By sharing the lessons learned from errors the goal will be to prevent the same errors from occurring again.
