Federal contract enables Ohio pediatric patient safety work to go national

The Ohio Children’s Hospitals Solutions for Patient Safety initiative held a kickoff event this week on an effort to take the work done in Ohio and spread it across the nation (Source: “Ohio’s pediatric hospitals launch national patient safety initiative,” Akron Beacon Journal, March 15, 2012).

Since its launch in 2009, the initiative has led to the avoidance of potentially harmful errors on more than 7,700 children and has saved $11.8 million in unnecessary health-care costs. And now, through a $4.3 million, two-year federal contract, the initiative will be rolled out nationwide, starting with 25 hospitals this year and 50 hospitals next year.

Pediatric hospitals participating in the initiative include Akron Children’s, Cleveland Clinic Children’s, Rainbow Babies and Children’s in Cleveland, Cincinnati Children’s, the Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, Nationwide Children’s in Columbus, Promedica Toledo Children’s and Mercy Children’s in Toledo.