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The Massachusetts Coalition
About the Coalition
The Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors is a public-private partnership whose mission is to improve patient safety and eliminate medical errors in Massachusetts.
The Coalition's membership includes consumer organizations, state agencies, hospitals, professional associations for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, long-term care, as well as health plans, employers, policymakers, and researchers. The Coalition leverages the efforts of all of these organizations to accomplish the shared goal of improving patient safety. The Coalition promotes a systems-oriented approach to improving patient safety, identifying the causes of medical errors, and developing and supporting implementation of strategies for prevention.
For further background on the Coalition and its history, A History of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors.
News
"Process Improvement in the Hospital Setting: Lessons for Successful Implementation of VTE Prophylaxis from the Rochester Regional Thromboembolism Collaborative"
(Audio Conference)
June 17, 2008, 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
Program Announcement
Registration Fee = $75 for Coalition members and $150 for non-members. (Fee covers 1 phone line, with unlimited participants)
Please email Eabayaah@macoalition.org for special code to receive your member discount
Register for VTE Prophylaxis Call
Hospital Leadership Forum: Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections
June 25, 2008, 8:30am-11:30pm EST
Doubletree Westborough
Westborough, MA
Program Announcement and Registration
Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections in Critical Care Settings
June 25, 2008, 12:00am-4:30pm EST
Doubletree Westborough
Westborough, MA
Program Announcement
Program Fee: $30 for Coalition members and $60 for non-members (Includes lunch, handouts and nursing CEUs)
Please email Eabayaah@macoalition.org for special code to receive your member discount
Register for Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections in Critical Care Settings
Coalition Announces Commitment to Work to Eliminate Hospital-Acquired Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
Based on the CDC estimates of infections nationally, patients in the commonwealth of Massachusetts are suffering more than 45,000 hospital-acquired infections each year, and nearly 2,000 deaths as a result of these infections. Successful implementation of safe practices to prevent these infections might save up to an estimated 200-400 million dollars annually in healthcare costs, and more importantly reduce the human suffering of patients and families from the death and disability resulting from these infections.
The Coalition's goal is elimination of the most common, fatal and costly hospital-acquired infections in hospitals throughout Massachusetts. The Coalition will work to have 100 percent participation in this initiative from hospitals in Massachusetts by the end of 2007, to eliminate ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated blood stream infections by the end of 2008, and to reduce hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a hazardous drug resistant form of this infection known as MRSA, by 80 percent by the end of that same year. By the end of 2009, our goal is to eliminate all these hospital-acquired infections.
Medication Safety
To promote patient safety statewide, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Medical Society and with support from the Commonwealth’s Betsy Lehman Center, has created a patient medication list (the Med List) that patients and their families can carry to medical visits. Patients should be aware of the information on the List and share it with physicians or healthcare providers so they are informed about the patient’s medications. Click here for more information and to download a free Med List.
Coalition's Consumer Brochure
 English Online Version |
Consumer Guide The Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors has developed a consumer guide that encourages patients to become "part of the health care team" along with their physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, to prevent medication mistakes. The guide was developed in conjunction with the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Family-Centered Care and is based on input solicited from patients, families, and health care professionals. The brochure is also available in Spanish. For more information, contact: |
 Spanish OnlineVersion |
Coalition Recognition
JCAHO 2005 National Patient Safety Goals include Coalition initiatives:
The National Patient Safety Goals established by the JCAHO for 2005 include new standards for the two topics which are the focus of the statewide patient safety initiatives sponsored by the Coalition and Massachusetts Hospital Association - Reconciling Medications and Communicating Critical Test Results. The safe practices and toolkits for these topics may be found on the “Initiatives” page.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices present 2003 Cheers Award to Coalition
Through their annual Cheers Awards, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices honors individuals, organizations, and companies that have through their actions in the past year set a standard of excellence for others to follow in the prevention of medication errors and other adverse events. The ISMP presented one of its 2003 Cheers Awards to the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors during its annual ceremony on December 9th, 2003. The award recognized the Coalition for its effort to gather key stakeholders to discuss the issues of accountability and how various models can be applied fairly and effectively in healthcare to better achieve patient safety. They also recognized the Coalition’s initiative with Massachusetts hospitals to improve communication and information transfer to reduce medication errors.
Coalition Initiatives
Listed below are links to the Coalition's Initiatives in the prevention of medical errors:
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