Patty Skolnik, Founder/Executive Director, Citizens for Patient Safety, joined me on Your Health Care:Choice or Chance? on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, to talk about this great organization. Patty founded Citizens for Patient Safety when her only child, Michael, died tragically from an egregious medical error resulting from his taking Wellbutrin to stop smoking. Patty has taken all her pain and worked tirelessly to prevent this horrible situation from ever happening again to another family.
You can watch the show in October in Cape Cod and in other communities. You can also listen on podcast in October at http://www.tvyourhealthcare.org/. Call for the schedule:
Cape Media: (508)394-2388 - Cotuit, Marstons Mills, Osterville, Centerville, Hyannis, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Barnstable and Chatham
Sandwich: (508)888-6800
Mashpee: (Weds, 8:30 p.m., Ch. 17
Burlington: (781)273-5922
Wellesley: (781-239-1444
Monday, September 26, 2011
MNA RALLY
On September 19, 2011, MNA nurses and I rocked at a patient safety rally at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis! I am so proud and honored that they asked me to MC this event and I am so proud to be a member of the Coalition to Protect Massachusetts Patients, an alliance that now comprises more than 125 of Massachusetts leading health care and consumer advocacy groups.
As the MC, I talked about why the patient safety bill is so important. Then I introduced the speakers, both of whom have been in the health care frontlines: Alex Ziss, a retired administrator of Falmouth Hospital, and Shannon Sherman, R.N, Cape Cod Hospital. Simultaneously, there were patient safety rallies at four other Massachusetts hospitals.
The next day, September 20, 2011, the Joint Committee on Public Health in the Legislature held a hearing on legislation to set safe patient limits for nurses, as well as for a new bill to ban the dangerous practice of mandatory overtime as a means of staffing hospitals.
It is so important that we Mass. residents contact our senators and reps to vote for these measures. Make no mistake: it is we, the people of Massachusetts, who are the most important stakeholders in the debate of hospital understaffing, for it is we who depend on safe hospitals when we are at our most vulnerable. And right now, there is one thing that is certain: there is no standard of safety that you can count on!!!
As the MC, I talked about why the patient safety bill is so important. Then I introduced the speakers, both of whom have been in the health care frontlines: Alex Ziss, a retired administrator of Falmouth Hospital, and Shannon Sherman, R.N, Cape Cod Hospital. Simultaneously, there were patient safety rallies at four other Massachusetts hospitals.
The next day, September 20, 2011, the Joint Committee on Public Health in the Legislature held a hearing on legislation to set safe patient limits for nurses, as well as for a new bill to ban the dangerous practice of mandatory overtime as a means of staffing hospitals.
It is so important that we Mass. residents contact our senators and reps to vote for these measures. Make no mistake: it is we, the people of Massachusetts, who are the most important stakeholders in the debate of hospital understaffing, for it is we who depend on safe hospitals when we are at our most vulnerable. And right now, there is one thing that is certain: there is no standard of safety that you can count on!!!
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