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The Mission of the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation is to help prevent medical errors by ensuring that patients and families have the KNOWLEDGE they need to promote a safe hospital experience for their loved ones, and to support innovative advancements in patient safety. Our greatest hope is that families, patients, and caregivers will work together as a TEAM to improve safety in our hospitals. Learn More

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  • Local Hospitals partner with the Louise Batz Patient Safety Foundation

    5/13/2013 10:53:40 AM

    Three local hospitals have teamed up with the Louise Batz Patient Safety Foundation to offer the Batz Guide for Bedside Advocacy, "Teaming up for the Patient". Baptist Health System, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa and Methodist Healthcare have all included links to the Batz Guide and the APP for the Batz Guide. Links provided on the three hospital sites provide easy access to patients. The Batz Guide is used to help hospital patients and their families stop preventable medical errors from occurring. ...

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  • Interns’ reduced hours putting patients at risk

    5/7/2013 3:24:57 PM

    Back in 2011 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced more curbs on the duty hours of first year resident medical trainees, or interns, that it had initially reduced in 2003.We’ve read some interesting coverage in the news about some new research suggesting that the new regulations are actually damaging patient safety and are having a negative impact on medical training.The original idea seems to have been that a reduction in working hours would allow interns ...

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  • Family's tragedy leads to patient-safety app

    3/25/2013 5:39:11 PM

    When Louise H. Batz entered Northeast Baptist Hospital in April 2009 for a knee replacement, she hoped to be out in time for the birth of her fourth grandchild.Instead, after a nurse administered two powerful narcotics and a sedative, Batz stopped breathing and suffered irreversible brain damage. After 11 days, she was taken off life support. She was 65.The knowledge that the death was preventable made it all the more tragic for her family. Batz should not have ...

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Putting medical errors under the microscope
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Potential Penalties for Lack of Patient Safety Initiatives? Health care reform to date has dealt with access more so than cost. New reports by the Department of Health and Human Services reveal how the health care industry's failure to improve patient safety helps drive the costs within the system, and why impending penalties is necessary.
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Patient Safety Tops Healthcare Committee's Agenda Workgroup recommends national database of safety incidents.
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The Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation website has been funded entirely from the generous donations made by friends of our family. It is a testament to how many people loved and cared for my mom. Our family is forever grateful for your support.Thank you so much from our Entire Family,Richard C. Batz Sr., Richard C. Batz, Jr., Ginger Isom Batz, Sawyer Batz, Riley Batz, Laura Batz Townsend, Michael Townsend, Ella Townsend, Mary Louise Townsend, Joanne Holshouser, Charles Holshouser, Sudie Holshouser, Carl Holshouser, Will Holshouser, Jenny Holshouser, Johnny Holshouser, Clay Holshouser, and Tom Holshouser.

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Our Story

This year, tragically, my family was affected by one of these errors. My Mom, Louise Batz, was a loving and devoted wife and mother. Her boundless love surrounded her immediate and extended family. On April 14, Mom went to have knee replacement surgery. That night, a medical error caused Mom to sustain an injury from which she could not recover. She lost her life eleven days later. Read More

In Louise’s memory, the family has established the:

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Patient Safety Foundation

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