“Bringing Patient Safety To Life”
What’s worked, what hasn’t, and what to do about it.

     
October 17^th & 18th, 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Virtual

Conference Registration Coming In June!

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

We are pleased to invite interested speakers to submit proposals for presentations at our 20^th annual patient safety conference. This year’s conference continues our regional collaboration between Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. Speaker application forms are available here: On-line or Word version.

DETAILS

Venue: Virtual
Conference Dates/times (Pacific): October 17^th & 18th – 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Speaker Application Deadline: June 30, 2023

PRESENTATION INFORMATION

• Plenary Speakers will present virtual 60 – 90-minute general sessions with Q&A.
• Breakout Speakers will host virtual 60 – minute sessions with opportunities for greater audience engagement.

We welcome presentations on what’s working! Previous attendees asked to hear about what’s going well, innovations to spread, practices to amplify and causes to support. We encourage proposals from across the care spectrum and strongly encourage patients and family members to submit proposals about their experiences. Example topics include, but are not limited to:

• Patient and Family Engagement: Novel and successful ways to partner with patients, families and care partners in all aspects of care design, delivery, and operations.
• Safety Within Systems: How should safety and quality be structured within organizations to survive organizational factors like leadership change, staff turnover, mergers and acquisitions, and external disturbances from societal events and climate change?
• Innovative and Equitable Patient Safety Practices: New methods, approaches and ideas to improve patient safety and equitable care with regards to race, ethnicity, and social determinants.
• Technology: Applications of artificial intelligence. What is its impact on safety?
• Collaboration on a Community Level: Collaborating with communities and each other to improve patient safety beyond the four walls of our healthcare institutions.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Click below to apply using the on-line form or download an application in Word.

• Please submit an application to present.
• SPEAKER APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 30, 2023
• You will be notified of the application status by or before July 31, 2023.
• Applications are reviewed by the conference planning committee. Presentations may be accepted before the June 30 deadline.
• The conference registration fee will be waived, and an honorarium may be available for accepted proposals.
  
• Each speaker whose proposal is accepted will sign and return a Letter of Agreement which specifies the timeline, responsibilities, and deliverables. If a speaker does not meet the conditions specified in the Letter, the conference organizers may rescind the invitation to speak.

WHO ATTENDS
500-600 attendees represent healthcare stakeholders including:

• Patient safety practitioners, risk managers, quality leaders, and healthcare executives.
• Clinical program leaders and frontline clinicians from across the spectrum of care.
• Claims representatives and insurance professionals.
• Patient advocates and patient experience officers, patient and family advisory council members.
• Graduate and undergraduate health professions students.
• Interested patients, family members of patients, and community members.

About the Northwest Patient Safety Conference
Now in its 20^th year, the Northwest Patient Safety Conference is the only event of its kind in the Western US, uniting healthcare professionals, providers, patients, families, and caregivers from all care settings for networking and engaging in sessions with industry thought leaders invested in improving the patient experience. This year’s conference is our second virtual conference, and our second year in collaboration between the Washington Patient Safety Coalition, the Oregon Patient Safety Commission, and the British Columbia Patient Safety and Quality Council.

Members of the conference committee who are putting on this fantastic conference

Jonathan Stewart – Chair               Jamie Leviton
Amelina Kassa                               Jeff Goldenberg
Andrea Wnuk                                 Karen Brigham
Anita Sulaiman                               Naomi Kirtner
David Birnbaum                             Rex Johnson
Farinaz Havaei                              Rhonda Bowen
Jackie Valentine                            Valerie Harmon

About the Washington Patient Safety Coalition
The Washington Patient Safety Coalition brings together a diverse group of participants to focus on achieving common patient safety goals. Our mission is to improve safety for patients receiving health care in Washington, in all care settings, with a vision of safe care for every patient, every time, everywhere. The WPSC is a program of the Foundation for Health Care Quality, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a trusted, independent, third-party resource to all participants in the health care community – including patients, providers, payers, employers, government agencies, and public health professionals.