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| Medical Malpractice
- Patient and Family Resources |
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| The following
is a list of organizations who offer services to
victims of hospital and other medical errors and
serve as advocacy groups to prevent future mistakes. |
| Josie King Foundation |
| josieking.org |
| The Josie King Foundation’s
mission is to prevent others from dying or
being harmed by medical errors. By uniting
healthcare providers and consumers, and funding
innovative safety programs, the Foundation
seeks to create a culture of patient safety,
together. |
- Patient-safety experts;
- Hospital safety programs; and
- Online forum to share medical error experiences.
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| Consumers Advancing
Patient Safety |
| patientsafety.org |
| Consumers Advancing
Patient Safety (CAPS) is a consumer-led nonprofit
organization formed to be a collective voice
for individuals, families and healers who wish
to prevent harm in healthcare encounters through
partnership and collaboration. |
- Patient-safety information; and
- Online forums on medical error experiences.
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| Persons United
Limiting Substandards and Errors in Health
Care |
| pulseamerica.org |
| PULSE is a nonprofit
organization working to improve patient safety
and reduce the rate of medical errors using
real life stories and experiences. Survivors
of medical errors are encouraged to use their
experience to educate the community and advocate
for a safer healthcare system. |
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- National network of patient-rights
advocates and victims of medical errors;
- Links for patient rights;
- Online chat rooms; and
- Patient safety education.
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| Surgicalfire.org |
| You can
help prevent a surgical fire from happening to
you by asking a few basic questions of your doctor
and other medical team members. |
- Information on surgical-fire
risks and prevention; and
- Patient safety tips.
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| Medically Induced Trauma
Support Services |
| MITSS.org |
| Medically Induced Trauma
Support Services (MITSS), Inc. is a non-profit
organization whose mission
is “To Support Healing and Restore Hope” to
patients, families, and clinicians who have been
affected by an adverse medical event. |
- Provides education and raises awareness of
medical errors; and
- Support for
patients, families and medical professionals
involved in errors.
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