Informative Articles and Press Releases for
Patient Safety & Advocacy

Explore our collection of Informative Articles designed to deepen your understanding of patient safety and effective healthcare advocacy. These carefully curated resources provide essential knowledge, practical strategies, and expert insights that can help protect you and your loved ones during healthcare encounters. Staying informed is one of the most powerful tools in preventing medical errors and ensuring quality care.

Before the articles, you will also find a series of Press Releases to keep you updated on our growth throughout the year. We regularly update both of these sections with new perspectives, emerging research, and valuable lessons from the field of patient safety—bookmark this page and return often to expand your advocacy toolkit and join our community of empowered healthcare consumers.

Press Releases

Pulse Center Partners with Sleep in Heavenly Peace to Support Local Children in Need of Beds

While planning its annual comedy show fundraiser, Ilene Corina, President of Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy, learned through a local networking meeting hosted by 516/Ads of Long Island that some children in the community do not have beds of their own. Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit organization, mobilizes volunteers to build and deliver beds to children in need through an application-based program. Recognizing that children may return home from the

Pulse CPSEA Marks World Patient Safety Day and Close of 2026 TakeCHARGE Campaign

September 17, 2026 is World Patient Safety Day, designated by the World Health Organization (WHO). This year’s focus is “NCDs” — noncommunicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases — which, WHO says, cause 74% of deaths globally. With some conditions such as cancer, WHO estimates that up to 1 in 3 patients experience adverse events during care. September 17 is worth marking for another, related reason: it is the offic

David Gussin of 516/631Ads to Open Pulse Center Comedy Show

We are excited to announce that David Gussin of 516/631Ads will be opening the Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Comedy Show on Sunday, September 27, 2026. Gussin is the founder and leader of one of Long Island’s oldest and largest networking groups, encouraging participation from businesses of all types, including nonprofit organizations such as the Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy. Ilene Corina, President and Founder of Pulse, explains

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Giving Tuesday? Give Us a Break!

Aren’t you glad? Giving Tuesday came and went, and Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy didn’t badger you for days or weeks with urgent pleas for help. But it is true that community financial support is the lifeblood of small non-for-profit organizations such as Pulse. So if you feel like showing your gratitude for not being guilt-tripped over recent weeks, and want to help Pulse’s efforts to reduce harm from medical error, please do donate. A lot or a li

What will you be talking about this Thanksgiving?

Dorothy’s daughter, Lilly, is away at college.* Her first year, and 500 miles away. Dorothy is confident that her Lilly will make good choices and be a good student. Dorothy doesn’t worry about her daughter until, after Lilly is away just a month, she gets a phone call from her daughter’s roommate who tells her that there was a car accident and Lilly is in the local hospital with a head injury. As her husband packs a bag to get on the road, Dorothy calls the hospital to fin

Conflict Resolution

Resolving Communication Breakdowns: A Workshop for Volunteers Tax-Aide National Recruitment and Outreach Committee State Management Team...

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Pulse CPSEA Marks World Patient Safety Day and Close of 2026 TakeCHARGE Campaign

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Sep 172 min read

TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 5: “Use an Advocate, and Be an Advocate for Others”

Every sick or injured patient needs a well person to safeguard their interests. In August, the TakeCHARGE Campaign: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care is moving to the fifth and final step of its 5-stage public awareness drive: “Use an Advocate, and Be an Advocate for Others.” Following four months of social media, and online seminars and presentations encouraging the public to take four basic steps that will raise the chances of successful treatment outcomes, the campaign now as

Press Release

Aug 72 min read

The TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step #4: Help Prevent Infections — Ask Care-Givers to Wash Their Hands

"Wash your hands. Wash for at least 20 seconds. Do it often."

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Jul 22 min read

TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 3: Prepare for Doctor or Hospital Visits — Make a List of Questions

#3 of public awareness campaign’s “5 Steps to Safer Health Care” aims to prevent “doorknob moments” The TakeCHARGE Campaign: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care is pleased to announce that June is the month for people to take its Step 3: Prepare for Doctor or Hospital Visits — Make a List of Questions. TakeCHARGE was started by Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy just before the COVID pandemic struck. Pulse’s president, board-certified patient advocate Ilene Cor

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Jun 92 min read

The TakeCHARGE Campaign Boston Area Debut

TakeCHARGE Ambassador Adam Gross BCPA from Peak Health Advocates and a member of Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy , presented The TakeCHARGE Campaign: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care to a select audience at the Goodnow Library in Sudbury, MA on Saturday, April 18 2026. The TakeCHARGE annual public awareness campaign was launched by Pulse in 2020. It builds on five basic steps anyone can take that will help improve the safety of their health care.

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Apr 212 min read

Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Marks Patient Safety Awareness Week with 2026 Launch of the TakeCHARGE Campaign

Annual “5 Steps to Safer Health Care” campaign kicks off with PSAW March 8-14 Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy announces that its TakeCHARGE Campaign: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care will launch a sixth season in 2026 during Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 8-14. Patient Safety Awareness Week ( https://www.ihi.org/partner/initiatives/patient-safety-awareness-week ) is supported by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In 2020, Pulse started the Tak

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Mar 51 min read

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Informative Articles and Press Releases for
Patient Safety & Advocacy

Press Releases

Pulse Center Partners with Sleep in Heavenly Peace to Support Local Children in Need of Beds

Pulse CPSEA Marks World Patient Safety Day and Close of 2026 TakeCHARGE Campaign

David Gussin of 516/631Ads to Open Pulse Center Comedy Show

Informative Articles

Giving Tuesday? Give Us a Break!

What will you be talking about this Thanksgiving?

Conflict Resolution

Pulse CPSEA Marks World Patient Safety Day and Close of 2026 TakeCHARGE Campaign

TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 5: “Use an Advocate, and Be an Advocate for Others”

The TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step #4: Help Prevent Infections — Ask Care-Givers to Wash Their Hands

TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 3: Prepare for Doctor or Hospital Visits — Make a List of Questions

The TakeCHARGE Campaign Boston Area Debut

Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Marks Patient Safety Awareness Week with 2026 Launch of the TakeCHARGE Campaign

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Informative Articles and Press Releases for Patient Safety & Advocacy

Press Releases

Pulse Center Partners with Sleep in Heavenly Peace to Support Local Children in Need of Beds

Pulse CPSEA Marks World Patient Safety Day and Close of 2026 TakeCHARGE Campaign

David Gussin of 516/631Ads to Open Pulse Center Comedy Show

Informative Articles

Giving Tuesday? Give Us a Break!

What will you be talking about this Thanksgiving?

Conflict Resolution

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Pulse CPSEA Marks World Patient Safety Day and Close of 2026 TakeCHARGE Campaign

TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 5: “Use an Advocate, and Be an Advocate for Others”

The TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step #4: Help Prevent Infections — Ask Care-Givers to Wash Their Hands

TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 3: Prepare for Doctor or Hospital Visits — Make a List of Questions

The TakeCHARGE Campaign Boston Area Debut

Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Marks Patient Safety Awareness Week with 2026 Launch of the TakeCHARGE Campaign

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Informative Articles and Press Releases for
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