Patient Safety Movement Foundation CEO Continues 3,000 Mile Walk Across America in D.C.

Patient Safety Movement Foundation CEO continues to shed light on patient and health worker safety ahead of World Patient Safety Day

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#PLAN4ZERO–Today, Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s CEO and MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety Executive Director, Dr. Dave Mayer, kicks off the D.C. portion of Dave’s Virtual Walk Across America for Healthcare Safety. Dr. Mayer is walking across the nation and raising awareness for patient and health worker safety, leading up to World Patient Safety Day on September 17, 2020.

Dr. Mayer will be starting the D.C. portion of his walk at Arlington Cemetery and will make his way to Nationals Park, stopping along the way at the White House and the Capitol Building. He’s completed walks in Phoenix, Denver, Milwaukee, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, and plans to complete nearly 3,000 miles over the course of his journey, essentially walking across the United States, finishing sometime in early 2021.

He themed the walks around one of his personal passions and America’s favorite pastime, baseball, and has been walking to stadiums across the country, raising awareness by meeting patient safety leaders and advocates along the way, sharing stories, and honoring lives that have been lost due to preventable medical error.

“The coronavirus pandemic has really put a spotlight on the need for patient and health worker safety—something that many of us have been concerned with for a long time,” he says. “Medical error is the cause of over 200,000 deaths in America each year, behind heart disease and cancer, and we need to bring attention to the importance of improving the care system, support our health workforce and ensure better outcomes.”

Dave’s Virtual Walk Across America for Healthcare Safety will continue during the summer; additional public walks will be announced on Twitter at @WalkForPtSafety, so be sure to follow along for updates. To show support you can donate to Dave’s Walk which supports the PSMF here: http://patient.sm/davesteam. To learn more about the Patient Safety Movement Foundation #uniteforsafecare campaign and register for the virtual event on the upcoming World Patient Safety Day on September 17, 2020, please visit https://patient.sm/virtual-event-rsvp.

About the Patient Safety Movement Foundation

Each year, more than 200,000 people die unnecessarily in U.S. hospitals. Worldwide, 4.8 million lives are similarly lost. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is a global non-profit on a mission to eliminate preventable patient deaths from medical errors. PSMF uniquely brings patients and patient advocates, healthcare providers, medical technology companies, government, employers, and private payers together under the same cause. From our Actionable Patient Safety Solutions and industry Open Data Pledge to our World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit and more, PSMF won’t stop fighting until we achieve zero.

For more information, please visit www.patientsafetymovement.org.

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