Patient Safety

Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients

The public has to know there is a problem before they can demand for it be fixed.

The Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients (ASAP) is a non-profit organization formed by Alicia Cole and her parents Ron & Betty Cole. Alicia is a Survivor of Necrotizing Fasciitis and Sepsis which she contracted following routine surgery at a top rated hospital in August of 2006. After discovering a black dot on her daughter’s stomach Mrs. Cole’s insistence on alerting the doctor was said to have saved Alicia’s life.

During the two month hospital stay the Cole family learned firsthand the importance of awareness of hospital acquired infections and the necessity for adherence to vital infection prevention safety standards. Alicia had joined over two million Americans who, according to the Centers for Disease Control, developed nosocomial infections during the course of their treatment. Sadly, of those infected, an estimated 103,000 patients died.

Understandably, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has recommended all patients entering a hospital have a patient advocate with them.

This site was started as a way to pull together grassroots advocates, survivors and medical providers working to improve our healthcare system. Hopefully there will be someone who joins from every area of the country and every level of expertise.

Please feel free to share your thoughts and experience...and tell a friend to check us out.

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Kelly Edwards

Came across a website today. 3 Replies

Started by Kelly Edwards. Last reply by Kelly Edwards Jun. 19, 2009.

Alicia Cole

Tell us your story... 2 Replies

Started by Alicia Cole. Last reply by Patty Skolnik Dec. 3, 2008.

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Alicia Cole

Texas Nurse On Trial After Reporting Doctor

A nurse in Texas is standing trial for reporting a doctor she thought was practicing bad medicine. Prosecutors have charged 52-year-old Anne Mitchell with making inflammatory statements about a doctor at a rural hospital in Kermit, Texas. She faces up to 10 years in prison. Mitchell says she was just trying to protect her patients. Kevin Sack of The New York Times says much of the case stems from local politics.



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Posted by Alicia Cole on February 9, 2010 at 8:53pm

Doreen Mulman

CODE BLUE for Patient Safety

CODE BLUE for Patient Safety


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Posted by Doreen Mulman on February 6, 2010 at 11:54pm

Doreen Mulman

MRSA superbug strain 'tracked' via genome

Researchers have developed a technique for precisely
tracking the spread of the superbug MRSA in hospitals.


Read More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8471137.stm

Posted by Doreen Mulman on January 22, 2010 at 12:30pm

Doreen Mulman

Insurer Invests in Patient Safety Effort

Insurer Anthem invests in hospital initiative to improve safety, cut costs

By Duke Helfand
January 20, 2010


California's largest health insurer is teaming with hospitals and doctors throughout the state to better share ways to improve patient safety and cut costs, leaders of the initiative said Tuesday.

Doctors, nurses and other health professionals at California hospitals will meet quarterly in person or over the Internet during the next three years to compare their practices a… Continue

Posted by Doreen Mulman on January 20, 2010 at 6:00pm

Lisa

Help find other families still in the Dark..Suspicious Suicide Solved (cover up!)

www.Drugawareness.org/recentcases/suspicious-suicide-of-sister

Lori age: 25

Suddenly she changed.. as I watched her literally be driven insane.
one month and four days...my sister was dead. we had no answers to why this happened to her and our family.

I am outraged that not only did she die due to concealed side effects...
suicidal ideation was the first, the withdraw (flu like symptoms) to Akathisia which dro… Continue

Posted by Lisa on January 14, 2010 at 8:30pm

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NonProfit Contact Information

www.PatientSafetyASAP.org
Alliance for Safety
Awareness for Patients

14622 Ventura Blvd., #102-827
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
818-379-9679

LA Times - Health

FDA aims to rein in radiation-based medical scans

The announcement comes five months after the FDA began looking into reports of problems with CT scanning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will work with doctors and manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical scans, a problem that has been growing for decades.


Heavy Web users likely to be depressed, study says

People who are addictive Internet searchers should probably browse for a phone number to the nearest therapist. Though almost everyone uses the Internet to conduct business, connect with people, pay bills or find information, the people who spend hours each day aimlessly surfing the Net appear more likely to be depressed.


Scientists try to measure love

They try to get to the bottom of long-term romance and how it affects our emotional and physical well-being.

Leave it to science to take all the fun out of something as cosmically pure as love.


 

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