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Maternal harm during and after pregnancy is a sentinel event. This campaign encourages women, families, and health providers to identify and speak up with concerns about maternal care and act on them. The program seeks to inform the design of support systems and tool development that enhance maternal safety.

Patient safety improvement has made progress but more can be done. This organization supports community efforts in the United States to engage policymakers in work toward aligning efforts to reduce preventable patient harm at a national level. It will build its efforts on the World Health Organization plan by moving forward with a framework to collaborate on a variety of strategies to enhance the safety of health care.

Misdiagnosis is a persistent challenge for patients and families to navigate. This audio news segment highlights one family's experience with poor care stemming from disrespect and premature closure that resulted in missed diagnosis, unnecessary care, and patient death. The story is coupled with a broader discussion on the extent of diagnostic errors and reasons they occur.

Implicit and explicit biases affect many facets of the health care delivery system. This story shares African-American patient experiences with bias that reduced the safety of maternity care. 

The reluctance of patients to seek routine health care services due to the COVID-19 pandemic is a recognized concern. This article shares data that illustrates the potential public health impact of this unreceived care over time.

This organization shares best practices to align and optimize efforts toward eliminating patient harm by the year 2030. The Foundation supports several awareness initiatives to drive improvements associated with its strategic aims that include promoting transparency, realigning safer care incentives, and informing patients and families about patient safety.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced patient use of primary, preventive, chronic and cancer care. This article discusses how reductions in cancer diagnosis may represent a worrying trend that has the potential to reduce patient safety in this vulnerable patient population.

Diagnosis in women is complicated by cultural norms, lack of research on medical conditions affecting women, and implicit bias. The article outlines conditions that are likely to be misdiagnosed in women such as heart disease and breast cancer. The author shares strategies for women to engage in the process to improve diagnostic accuracy.  

Women face implicit bias that can affect the safety and effectiveness of their care. Reviewing several high-profile accounts that raised awareness of challenges women experience in health care, this magazine article describes challenges to safe care such as lack of physician attention to patient concerns, misdiagnosis, and preconceptions regarding pain intensity.