Pennsylvania, which has the third largest senior population in the United States, is in a unique position to lead in setting the standard of long-term care quality.

While we all purport to value ethics, the real value of ethics is unclear to many. Few perceive ethics as a valuable problem-solving resource. Yet, while ethics is touted as among the most serious and important of issues, it has good bark but little bite.

First, I want to say that the most important learning about patient safety is that systems — not individuals — cause errors and injuries.

The Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) is a nonprofit, voluntary membership organization, founded to represent all stakeholders in the disease management (DM) community.

We start this column by thanking the publisher and editor of Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH) for its splendid coverage of innovation and action in the field of patient safety.

In December 2004, Don Berwick, MD, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), launched a national campaign to save 100,000 lives by June 14, 2006.