The Doctors Company Foundation has awarded the following grants:
November 2011—The National Patient Safety Foundation received $25,000 to sponsor the Lucian Leape Institute Town Hall Plenary Session at the 2012 National Patient Safety Foundation Congress in Washington, D.C.
October 2011—Tufts Health Care Institute was awarded $27,000 to support a faculty development pilot project in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. This two-day intensive faculty development course addressed several topics, including the patient safety culture, team training and communication, apology and disclosure, measures and tools for improvement, and preventing medication errors.
October 2011—The California Medical Association Foundation received $15,000 to support their Medical Student Leadership Grant Program by establishing six Patient Safety Awards. The awards program provides grants to medical students to develop and implement innovative patient safety projects in their school or community. Students in all 10 medical schools in California are eligible.
July 2011—The Lucian Leape Institute was awarded $55,000 to partner with The Doctors Company Foundation in sponsoring six annual patient safety awards. The Doctors Company Foundation's 2012 Young Physicians Patient Safety Award will be awarded to six third- and fourth-year medical students and first-year residents who write an essay about the most instructional patient safety event they have personally experienced during their clinical rotations. The essays will be judged by the National Patient Safety Foundation, and each winner will receive $5,000.
July 2011—The University of Illinois Institute for Patient Safety Excellence received $95,000 in support of the Eighth Annual Telluride Patient Safety Educational Roundtable. The grant allows 40 qualified medical students to spend one week in Telluride learning effective team-building and communication skills, patient safety, and transparency.
July 2011—The California Institute for Nursing and Health Care received $25,000 to help underwrite their 2011 Magic in Teaching Conference. This year's conference focuses on simulation and patient safety for nursing educators in schools of nursing and hospitals.
July 2011—The American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation received a grant of $30,000 to help support a Patient Safety and Quality Improvement mini seminar at their 2011 Annual Meeting and OTO EXPO in San Francisco from September 11-14.
July 2011—The California Medical Association Foundation was granted $16,250 to support their 6th Annual Medical Student Leadership Conference. Medical students will learn about current trends in patient safety, focusing on communication skills with patients, shared decision making, and disclosure. Emerging policy issues will also be discussed. Students will then develop chapter goals for this academic year in patient safety and advocacy.
May 2011—The American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation received a grant of $60,000 to be paid over five years to develop a first-ever AAO-HNSF CORE grant that will encourage new research and focus on vital advances in patient safety.
May 2011—The Michigan State Medical Society Foundation was awarded $9,000 to support their Health Care Quality Symposium.
May 2011—Mills—Peninsula Hospital Foundation received $89,300 to support Founding a Northern California Regional Collaborative National Surgical Quality Improvement Project, a system to compare and improve surgical outcomes in hospitals.
April 2011—Olive View—UCLA Medical Center received $144,000 to be paid over two years to support an Alzheimer's Home Safety Program Pilot & Evaluation, a process for documentation and follow-up on safety hazards at home for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.
April 2011—The Society of Hospital Medicine was awarded $52,000 to support training for hospitalist physician mentors as part of their Mentored Implementation program. This program trains mentors to assist in implementing hospital Quality Initiative interventions important to the practice of hospital medicine.
April 2011—The University of Hawaii received $5,000 to support their project entitled, “2nd Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference: Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Interventions.”
March 2011—The University of Illinois at Chicago was granted $10,000 to support a one-day workshop entitled, “Designing and Implementing a Patient Safety Curriculum for Medical Students.” Educational leaders from U.S. medical schools met to share best practices in teaching medical students about patient safety, quality improvement, and transparency.
February 2011—University of Illinois Institute for Patient Safety Excellence received $50,000 in support of the Seventh Annual Telluride Patient Safety Educational Roundtable: “Dilemmas Surrounding Medical Errors and Adverse Events.” The grant allows 20 qualified medical students to spend one week in Telluride learning effective communication skills to overcome the multiple barriers to transparency.
January 2011—The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation received the fourth 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.