2012 Grants Awarded
The Doctors Company Foundation has awarded the following grants:
February 2012—The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation received $25,000 to support educational expenses for their one-day multidisciplinary conference, “Postoperative Visual Loss—Who is at risk, What should we tell patients preoperatively, and How should we manage their intraoperative care?” The conference is being held on September 12, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona.
February 2012—The Division of Hospital Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine received a grant for $59,174 to support the development of standardized patient modules designed to assess and improve communications between attending hospitalists and patient/caregivers at points of hospitalization—admissions, daily rounds, and discharge. The study results will be shared with other medical schools and the Society of Hospital Medicine.
January 2012—The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation received the fifth of five annual grants of $5,000 to sponsor the Ann S. Lofsky, MD Research Award. This research award was established in memory of Ann S. Lofsky, MD, a former board member of The Doctors Company.
January 2012—Scripps Health received the third of six annual grants of $5,000 to sponsor The Doctors Company Foundation Thomas A. Waltz, MD, Memorial Lecture on “Quality in Health Care” at the annual Scripps Health Quality Summit.