Minds of Medicine: Do No Harm - Safety & Quality No Harm Campaign

Each year thousands of patients die in the hospital not because of their disease but because of their care. A doctor at Harvard developed a solution to this problem called the "No Harm Campaign". The goal of the campaign is to lower the number of patient deaths due to care and to implement better patient safety practices across the spectrum of medicine. Henry Ford Health System has begun it's No Harm Campaign and hopes to be a industry leader. Dr. William Conway of Henry Ford Health System believes that because of the structure of the Henry Ford system they have the tools necessary to lower patient risk in all areas of medicine, and to be an example of how best to implement the campaign.
About Henry Ford Health System's No Harm Campaign
Since the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the focus on reducing harm has spread across health care. The IOM report used the shocking statistic that 44,000 to 98,000 deaths each year are caused by medical errors, and other studies have found alarming rates as high as 40 harm events per 100 patients admitted to a hospital. Over the past decade health care organizations across the nation have struggled with how to respond cohesively. In 2007, the Henry Ford Health System Board of Trustees identified eliminating harm from the health care experience as our highest priority. Our "No Harm Campaign" is a System-wide approach designed to coalesce various harm-reduction interventions into one key System effort. For more information on the No Harm Campaign, visit www.henryford....
About Henry Ford Health System
Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is a Michigan not-for-profit corporation governed by a 22-member Board of Trustees. Advisory and affiliate boards comprising 129 Trustee volunteer leaders provide vital links to the communities served by the System. HFHS is managed by Chief Executive Officer Nancy M. Schlichting.
HFHS is one of the nation's leading comprehensive, integrated health systems. It provides health insurance and health care delivery, including acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services backed by excellence in research and education. For more information, visit www.henryford.com