WIHI: Run, Don’t Walk! The Urgent Need for Patient Safety

Date: September 24, 2009 

Featuring: 

• Don Berwick, Former IHI President and CEO
• Sorrel King, Author, Josie's Story, co-founder, Josie King Foundation

 

In the same year that IHI’s Don Berwick helped write the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, outlining a prescription to rid the US health care system of errors, inefficiencies, and indignities, Sorrel King lost her 18-month old daughter at a major teaching hospital due to a medical error. Sorrel became a patient safety activist practically overnight and, in the process, gained the attention of people on the frontlines of patient care and improvement leaders like Don. Each has logged a lot of miles and spoken to a lot of audiences, and together they have a unique view of where we stand as a nation when it comes to safer care. Sorrel's new book, Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe, chronicles a parent's journey to transform American medicine.