Representatives of a dozen hospital departments and programs offered quick tips, safety reminders and other information to physicians and hospital staff who stopped at displays outside the SHC cafeteria March 24 during a Patient Safety Fair. Above, PAT SMITH, quality manager in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, provided information about National Patient Safety Goals and how to adhere to them every day in practice. Visitors were reminded that all individuals are responsible for patient safety. Other services hosting booths were Clinical Engineering, Medical Records, Patient Care Services, Environmental Health and Safety, the Medical Staff Office, Infection Control, Medication Management, Office of Community and Patient Relations, and Human Resources
Hospital monitoring starts for doctors convicted of DUI
GYN Clinic moves, consolidates
'Save Our Strokes' Quality Improvement registers success
OHNS department treads strongly where division once faced constraints
Medical School and SHC pursue joint clinical program development, dean reports
For several months, leaders of Stanford Hospital and Clinics and the School of Medicine have been working together to establish strategic plans for clinical program development, according to a report by Dean Philip Pizzo in his March 8 newsletter. For details, see: http:// deansnewsletter. stanford. edu/archive/ 03_08_04.html.
Cancer Center
Information Online
Information
about the new Cancer Center (such as phone lists, maps, and more) can
now be found on the SHC Intranet: http:// cancercenter.
stanfordmed.org
THURSDAY - MAY 20
FAIRCHILD AUDITORIUM
(adjacent to convenient parking and the hospital)
5:00 to 6:15 p.m. - Drinks and serious hors d'oeuvers/light dinner
GUEST SPEAKER - Robert M. Wachter,
UCSF pioneer hospitalist Robert M. Wachter, author of "Internal Bleeding: What We Need to Know and Do to Cure our Epidemic of Medical Mistakes."
