Giving Tuesday: The Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation

Today is a day known as “Giving Tuesday,” to follow up the commercially-driven “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” days. It's a great day to give to any cause or organization that's meaningful to you.

One organization that I choose to give to throughout the year is the Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation.

The Batz Foundation produces practical and helpful guidebooks and apps to help protect patients during their hospital stay or other healthcare encounters.

You can download the guidebook and iPad app for free. Please consider donating to the Foundation if you'd like to further their cause and efforts.

Batz Foundation founder and CEO Laura Batz did this webinar for KaiNexus earlier this year. In the webinar, she told her mom's story and talked about the work of the Foundation, along with two healthcare professionals who have collaborated with her:

Practicing Lean book by Mark Graban

As you might know, all proceeds from the Practicing Lean anthology book that I edited are being donated to the Batz Foundation, over $3000 so far.

Click here to learn more about the book, to buy an eBook or audio book through LeanPub.com, or to buy the Paperback or Kindle edition through Amazon.

If you've read the book, one other way you can help is by writing a review on Amazon.

What causes do you support, within healthcare or otherwise?

Learn more about the patient safety crisis:

https://www.leanblog.org/2009/08/statistics-on-healthcare-quality-patient-safety-problems-errors-harm/

And also check out these podcasts about patient safety:

https://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/leanblog-podcast-78-sorrel-king/
https://www.leanblog.org/2014/06/podcast-203-chris-jerry-the-emily-jerry-foundation-part-1/
https://www.leanblog.org/2016/03/podcast-246-steve-montague-lean-checklists-patientsafety/
https://www.leanblog.org/2011/07/podcast-124-paul-oneill-on-patient-safety/
https://www.leanblog.org/2011/08/podcast-127-dr-richard-shannon-lean-patient-safety/

Thanks for reading and for listening.

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Mark Graban helps leaders build workplaces where people speak up and improvement sticks, through Lean management, psychological safety, and better use of metrics. He is a keynote speaker, advisor, and host of the Lean Blog Interviews and My Favorite Mistake podcasts.

He is the author of The Mistakes That Make Us, Measures of Success, Lean Hospitals, and Healthcare Kaizen, and a three-time recipient of the Shingo Publication Award. His next book is The Silence Tax.

Mark is also a Senior Advisor to KaiNexus. Get his free ebooks.

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