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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
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."
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
TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 2: Keep Track of Your Medical History and Current Medications
May’s mission is to make and maintain an up-to-date list of the medications you take, and to start keeping a personal medical history.
Informative Articles
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 Center for Patient Safety Awarded WHO Grant for World Patient Safety Day Initiative
LONG ISLAND, NY — Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy (Pulse CPSEA), a Long Island-based nonprofit organization...
Sep 2, 20252 min read
TakeCHARGE Campaign Moves to Step 5: “Choose an Advocate for Yourself, Be an Advocate for Others”
Every sick or injured patient needs a well person to safeguard their interests. The 2025 TakeCHARGE Campaign (5 Steps to Safer Health...
Aug 7, 20252 min read
Conflict Resolution
Resolving Communication Breakdowns: A Workshop for Volunteers Tax-Aide National Recruitment and Outreach Committee State Management Team...
Aug 2, 20253 min read
Pulse Analysis: “New York’s Healthcare System Is Reaching a Breaking Point,” says Insurance Specialist James Donnelly
James Donnelly Premium spikes, insurer withdrawals and exploding medicaid spending spark alarm over patients' safety With health...
Jul 9, 20252 min read
Marc Berlin (BCPA) Joins Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy Board
Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy is pleased to announce that Marc Berlin, Board-Certified patient advocate and owner...
Jun 24, 20251 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 16, 20251 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 31, 20251 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 4, 20251 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 23, 20252 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 7, 20252 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
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 14, 20223 min read
KEEP UP YOUR MEDICATION LIST, IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE
In the New Year, Commit to Taking Charge of Your Own Health Care by Ilene Corina January 2022 Keeping a list of your medications may...
Jan 1, 20222 min read
DON’T HANG UP
Don’t Hang Up! When you are lying in the hospital bed, get a call from a family member or friend and are chatting away, and a doctor or...
Sep 24, 20213 min read
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