ADVOCATE

We believe as Don Bewrick says “nothing about me without me”.

For too long, patients have been excluded from healthcare decision-making. To promote patient safety, we have worked to include their voice in the process. For 13 years, we have collaborated with healthcare providers, consumer advocacy groups, and industries on a local, national, and international scale. Our efforts have earned us a seat on various boards and committees, where we have explored innovative research tools and processes and have pushed for legislation to promote and improve patient safety.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Advancing Safer Care by Centering the Patient Voice

The Batz Foundation partners with healthcare leaders around the world to advance patient safety through family empowerment, patient-centered policy, and systems-level change. Through compelling storytelling, evidence-based frameworks, and practical tools, we help organizations place patients and families at the heart of safer care.

We offer impactful, customizable engagements designed for healthcare audiences at every level, from frontline clinicians to executive leadership.

Keynotes

Inspiring, thought-provoking presentations that challenge assumptions and reframe patient safety through the lived experience of patients and families. Ideal for opening or closing sessions at conferences and leadership events.

Plenaries & Panels

Dynamic sessions that bring together patient advocates, safety science experts, and healthcare leaders to explore real-world challenges, policy implications, and actionable solutions.

Workshops

Available as half-day or full-day interactive sessions, our workshops move beyond awareness to application. Participants engage with practical tools, case studies, and facilitated discussions focused on embedding patient safety and family partnership into daily practice.

Leadership Retreats

Designed for executive teams and boards, these retreats create space for reflection, alignment, and strategic planning around patient-centered safety, culture change, and accountability.

Who We Speak To

Our programs are tailored for:

Health systems and hospitals
Nursing, risk, quality, and patient-experience associations
Insurers, risk pools, and purchasers
Select corporate and healthcare-adjacent organizations
National and international healthcare conferences

What We Share

At major national and international healthcare conferences, we speak about:

The Batz Model of Family Empowerment as a catalyst for safer care
Strategies for advocating patient-centered policies at organizational and system levels
Practical approaches to ensuring the patient voice is central to the global movement for safety and quality

Our work bridges lived experience and safety science—connecting hearts, minds, and systems to drive meaningful change.

TRAININGS

Building the Future of Patient Safety Education

The Batz Foundation is spearheading the development of a comprehensive patient safety curriculum and certification program designed to meet the urgent needs of today’s healthcare systems—and those of the future.

Guided by patient advocates and safety science experts, this initiative addresses critical gaps in medical and professional education by embedding patient safety principles into the training of both current and future healthcare professionals.

Why This Matters

Despite decades of research, preventable harm remains a leading cause of injury and death worldwide. One of the most persistent barriers to progress is the lack of standardized, patient-centered safety education across disciplines and career stages.

Our education initiative is grounded in the belief that patients and families are essential partners in safety—and that their insights must inform how healthcare professionals are trained.

Our Patient Safety Curriculum

This evolving curriculum is being designed to:

Embed patient safety principles across clinical, administrative, and leadership roles
Integrate lived patient and family experience with safety science and systems thinking
Translate evidence into practical, teachable, and measurable competencies
Support culture change by strengthening accountability, transparency, and partnership

Content areas will include, but are not limited to:

Foundations of patient safety and human factors
Family engagement and co-production of care
Communication, disclosure, and trust after harm
Policy, governance, and organizational responsibility for safety
Designing systems that listen to—and act on—the patient voice

Our Vision

The Batz Foundation certification program will establish a recognized standard for patient-centered safety education.

The program is envisioned to:

Validate core competencies in patient safety and family partnership
Be adaptable across professions, care settings, and geographic regions
Complement existing clinical and quality training programs
Signal institutional commitment to safer, more reliable care

Partnership Opportunities

We are actively seeking collaboration with:

Academic institutions and training programs
Health systems and hospitals
Professional associations and accrediting bodies
Funders, foundations, and philanthropic partners
Policy and safety organizations committed to systemic change

Partners will have opportunities to contribute to curriculum design, pilot implementation, evaluation, and scaling.

Contact Us.

Contact us if you want to join our movement or start a conversation on how we might partner together to improve patient safety. We are stronger together than we are apart.

Over the last decade, the Louise Batz Patient Safety Foundation team has ventured around the world to spread the word to government leaders, medical care advocates, and civic organizations concerning the necessity of patient safety. We deliver workshops on advocacy, training for medical facility staff, conference engagements, and also collaborate with organizations to tailor our message. If you'd like an authority from our group to talk about our mission and present some safety tips, please drop an email to laura@louisebatz.org for further details. A glimpse of the places we've already been to can be found below.

Previous speaking engagements:

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Summit Conference
Hosted Film Screenings of “To Err is Human” with Panelists Mike Eisenberg, the Director and Dr. David Mayer, President of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation at UT Health Austin and UT Health San Antonio
TENET Leadership Conference
Patient Safety Movement Conference
SXSW-Austin,
7o Foro “JORNADA ABIERTA”, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Making Health Care Measurement Patient-Centered: A Convening to Develop Principles and Strategies,” a convening sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and California Health Care Foundation- Washington DC
ISQUA conference- London, England

Training Examples:

United States Airforce Nursing Corps
Southern Command Center of the U.S. Army
University of Texas Health Science Center School of Nursing
Memorial Hermann System Executive Board and Leadership-
Covidien National Sales Meeting
Baylor Scott & White Safety and Quality Summit