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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 CPSEA’s Sharon McDermott to Speak at People for Patient Safety Meeting on Safety in Acupuncture and Birth Doula Work
Monthly Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy meeting for November What do acupuncture and birth doula work have in common? For some, they are complementary disciplines; both require training and skills; and both are the specialties of Sharon McDermott, M.S., L.Ac ., CBD, owner of https://healthyhealingli.com , a Long Island-based practice offering alternative and herbal therapies. The free, virtual (Zoom) People for Patient Safety (PPS) meeting from Pulse
Any Questions? Pulse Center for Patient Safety Hosts “Open Podium” Zoom Session for the Public
Have you ever had a question about the health care you or a loved one is receiving . . . . but didn’t know who to ask? Now there’s a place to find out what others, who may have had similar experiences, have learned. PACC — Patient Activation through Community Conversations — is a freewheeling discussion on Zoom that is hosted monthly by Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy, the nation’s leading grassroots patient safety education organization. A PACC is n
Pulse Center for Patient Safety’s Karen Campbell to Host “Planning for Aging in Place” Virtual Meeting for Patient Advocates
Planning for aging in place is not easy. A patient advocate can help older people assess their needs, desires and resources and build a plan that takes account of the many moving parts involved. Tonight (October 27, 2025) Karen Campbell, MBA, RScP of Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy will host a session of Advocates Collaborative Educational Series (ACES), “ Planning for Aging in Place: Your Home, Your Community, Your Choice ” devoted to that topic. This is
Informative Articles
Conflict Resolution
Resolving Communication Breakdowns: A Workshop for Volunteers Tax-Aide National Recruitment and Outreach Committee State Management Team...
How Do You Choose a Patient Advocate? Do You Actually Need One?
First, you may want to decide what services you need. Here are some things to think about: Do you need someone to bathe and dress you or...
Could One Oversight in Your Health Care Put Your Life at Risk?
Imagine this: After a routine visit to the hospital, you think you are on the path to recovery. But a few days later, you develop a fever...
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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...
Jun 22 min read
Press Release: Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Announces Board Appointment of Maria Rodriguez
Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy is delighted to announce the appointment of Maria Rodriguez to its Board. Ms....
May 161 min read
Press Release: Pulse Family-Centered Patient Advocacy Training Unites Patient Advocates, Experts and Family Caregivers
On Thursday and Friday, March 27-28, 2025 Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy held the latest edition of its...
Mar 311 min read
Press Release: Patient Safety Awareness Week: Keep the Momentum Going with Family-Centered Patient Advocacy Training
Patient Safety Awareness Week for 2025 is drawing to a close. It has seen a wide range of activities all across the country, many aimed...
Mar 141 min read
Press Release: “A Great Program” -2024 Pulse Advocate Training Attendee
2024 Graduates “A great program” was just the shortest of the evaluations Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy received...
Mar 41 min read
Press Release: Patient Advocacy: Pulse CPSEA Offers Training Opportunity for a Growing Profession
Medical error takes a thousand forms, and it’s no news that health care carries risks both large and small. Every hospital patient or...
Feb 211 min read
Press Release: Are You Prepared to Enter the Healthcare System?
Nowhere is the Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared” more important than in medical care. Are you prepared to enter the healthcare system as a...
Feb 132 min read
Press Release: Pulse Media Release: Safer Health Care? The Public Can Help Fix the Problem!
Wantagh, NY Feb 6 2025 Family caregivers are rarely trained as patient advocates, but now is their chance to learn about patient safety...
Feb 61 min read
Press Release: Pulse Media Release — Patient Safety: Are You Part of The Problem?
Patient Safety: Are You Part of The Problem? Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy‘s March training event to combat...
Jan 292 min read
How Do You Choose a Patient Advocate? Do You Actually Need One?
First, you may want to decide what services you need. Here are some things to think about: Do you need someone to bathe and dress you or...
Jan 232 min read
Press Release: Rants of a Patient Safety Advocate 2nd Edition: More Stories from the Bedside
Ilene Corina, BCPA, a leading national educator and campaigner for patient safety, has published a second, expanded edition of her...
Jan 72 min read
ARE YOU THINKING OF BECOMING A PATIENT ADVOCATE?
December 2024 Are you thinking of becoming a professional, independent patient advocate in the new year because you have cared for others...
Dec 4, 20243 min read
Pulse CPSEA Training Symposium Attracts Major Sponsor
Safer health care the focus of intensive course Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy (Pulse CPSEA) is pleased to announce...
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Could One Oversight in Your Health Care Put Your Life at Risk?
Imagine this: After a routine visit to the hospital, you think you are on the path to recovery. But a few days later, you develop a fever...
Sep 26, 20243 min read
One Wrong Pill: A Small Mistake with Huge Implications
Imagine this: After a long, exhausting day, you reach for what you think is your usual pain reliever. But in a moment of distraction, you...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
We’re Resource-full!
Do you have a child going off to college or moving away? Remember, just because you pay their bills, doesn’t mean you have the right to...
Aug 31, 20242 min read
Helping in a Time of Need
Have you ever said to someone in need of medical care, “If you need something, let me know”? This can be seen as an empty way to support...
Jul 14, 20241 min read
A MEDICAL ERROR
August 2021 A recent report out of Ohio’s University Hospitals in Cleveland was that they made a mistake in transplanting a kidney into...
Apr 26, 20242 min read
THE OPIOID CRISIS
I was sitting with a patient who was still groggy after surgery when the doctor said he would send her home with pain medication. The...
Apr 26, 20242 min read
HOW TAKE CHARGE: 5 STEPS TO SAFER HEALTH CARE BENEFITS PERSONS WITH BREAST CANCER
HOW TAKE CHARGE: 5 STEPS TO SAFER HEALTH CARE BENEFITS PERSONS WITH BREAST CANCER www.TakeCHARGE.care By Donalee Thomas According to the...
Oct 13, 20223 min read
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