Patient Safety Movement Foundation Founder Joe Kiani Honored with Two Special Awards at 5th Annual World Patient Safety, Scie...
February 24 2017 - 7:56PM
Business Wire
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is proud to
announce that its founder, Joe Kiani, was recognized with two
special honors at the 5th Annual World Patient Safety, Science
& Technology Summit, held February 3–4, 2017.
Kiani received the European Patient Blood Management (PBM)
Network Platinum Award from Kai Zacharowski, MD, PhD, FRCA, and
Patrick Meybohm, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care
Medicine & Pain Therapy, at the University Hospital Frankfurt,
Germany. The award recognizes Kiani for providing the impetus to
launch the European PBM Network and for the PSMF’s focus on Anemia
and Blood Transfusions as one of its 13 Actionable Patient Safety
Solutions.
During the award presentation, Dr. Zacharowski expressed his
gratitude to Kiani and the PSMF: “Thank you from the European side
to the American side. Thank you to all of you who were supporting
us and helping us be successful, not for us being successful, but
for all of our patients.”
The second award was presented on behalf of the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by Patrick Conway, MD,
MSc, Acting Administrator, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and
Quality & CMS Chief Medical Officer. The award recognizes the
partnership with Kiani and the PSMF that contributed to three CMS
leaders receiving the prestigious Samuel J. Heyman Service to
America Medal (“SAMMIEs”) 2016 Federal Employee of the Year Award
from the Partnership for Public Service. The SAMMIE acknowledged
the CMS’s highly effective patient safety work that resulted in
more than 3 million harms prevented, more than $28 billion in cost
savings, and approximately 125,000 lives saved through 2015.
Dr. Conway remarked, “The leadership and support of Joe Kiani
and the Patient Safety Movement Foundation for Partnership for
Patients, and our shared work together, were key elements in
achieving these extraordinary results. Thank you for all that you
have done. We are grateful to be teaming with you on this important
work.”
“I’m very humbled to accept these awards on behalf of all of the
volunteers, employees and board members of the Patient Safety
Movement. To be recognized by such highly esteemed colleagues in
the worldwide effort to improve patient safety is gratifying, but
I’m even more gratified by what these awards really represent:
lives saved and real progress in eliminating preventable patient
deaths,” said Joe Kiani, Founder of the Patient Safety Movement
Foundation. “Unfortunately, our work is far from over; but, I know
by continuing to partner with incredible and dedicated patient
advocates, like Dr. Zacharowski and Dr. Conway, we can reach zero
preventable deaths by the year 2020.”
About The Patient Safety Movement Foundation
More than 200,000 people die every year in U.S. hospitals and 3
million worldwide in ways that could have been prevented. The
Patient Safety Movement Foundation was established through the
support of the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and
Competition in Healthcare to reduce that number of preventable
deaths to 0 by 2020 (0X2020). Improving patient safety will require
a collaborative effort from all stakeholders, including patients,
healthcare providers, medical technology companies, government,
employers, and private payers. The Patient Safety Movement
Foundation works with all stakeholders to address the problems with
actionable solutions for patient safety. The Foundation also
convenes the World Patient Safety, Science and Technology Summit.
The Summit brings together some of the world’s best minds for
thought-provoking discussions and new ideas to challenge the status
quo. By presenting specific, high-impact solutions to meet patient
safety challenges, called Actionable Patient Safety Solutions,
encouraging medical technology companies to share the data their
products are purchased for, and asking hospitals to make
commitments to implement Actionable Patient Safety Solutions, the
Patient Safety Movement Foundation is working toward zero
preventable deaths by 2020. Visit
http://patientsafetymovement.org/.
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