The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF) invite you to apply for the 2024 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. The prestigious awards program honors groundbreaking initiatives and individuals that contribute to better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending. This year’s application is available through Oct. 29, 2024.
Each year, the prestigious Eisenberg Awards recognize major achievements by individuals and organizations that improved patient safety and healthcare quality in three categories:
- National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality: Recognizes a patient safety or healthcare quality project or initiative that has achieved national impact.
- Local Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality: Recognizes a patient safety or healthcare quality project or initiative that has achieved local or regional impact.
- Individual Achievement: Recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and scholarship in patient safety and healthcare quality through a substantive body of work.
This year, there is no cost to apply for an Eisenberg Award. Apply now or access application resources and eligibility criteria on the Eisenberg Awards webpage.
The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International (JCI) proudly recognize World Patient Safety Day, an annual observance sponsored by the World Health Organization, that aligns with our commitment to ensuring what matters most – that all people always experience the safest, highest quality, best value healthcare across all settings.
While World Patient Safety Day isn’t until Sept. 17, our World Patient Safety Day webpage is now available. The page contains free resources related to this year’s theme, Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety, including:
- The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety open-access article collection on diagnostic safety
- Links to free Quick Safety, Case Example, and Sentinel Event Alert publications related to diagnostic safety
- Details about the Sept. 17 webinar, “Diagnostic Safety: The Multidisciplinary Approach,” moderated by Dr. Neelam Dhingra, Vice President and Chief Patient Safety Officer, JCI, and featuring four international patient safety experts
Additional resources are on the way. Follow The Joint Commission on LinkedIn and Facebook, and find JCI on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X, to receive the latest updates. Join the conversation by using #WorldPatientSafetyDay and #diagnosticsafety.
The National Association for Healthcare Quality® (NAHQ) will hold its annual virtual event NAHQ next, on Sept. 9-11, 2024.
Long-term sustainable solutions are needed to take on healthcare’s top challenges. Hear from healthcare professionals to find those solutions and achieve healthcare excellence for the long term. Attendees can learn strategies to share with their organizations to help advance quality and achieve objectives.
Speakers include NAHQ CEO Stephanie Mercado and Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, president and chief executive officer, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International, who discuss how quality and safety are inextricably linked and essential to improving patient outcomes in “Taking Quality and Safety to a Higher Ground.”
Learn about the two organization’s shared goal to drive out variability in healthcare delivery, workforce competency and workforce readiness. NAHQ next offers two and a half days of structured live sessions, with 150 speakers, along with on-demand content including:
- Poster presentations
- 60-minute sessions
- 15-minute HQ Best Practice Tools
Attendees will have access to the live sessions and all on-demand content until Dec. 31, 2024.
NAHQ is the creator of the twice-validated, industry-standard Healthcare Quality Competency Framework. NAHQ provides an advantage to healthcare quality professionals and their organizations by developing and evolving workforce competencies in healthcare quality that result in better health outcomes and reduced costs.