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Application for AAKP patient safety award open
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Applications for the 2018 to 2019 grant cycle of the Jenny Kitsen Patient Safety Award are available from the American Association of Kidney Patients. Applications are due July 31, 2018.
“For Americans who are receiving life-saving dialysis care, their health outcomes and lives depend upon the infection control efforts among the health care professionals who directly serve them, as well as those who manage the health systems that deliver their care,” Paul T. Conway, president of American Association of Kidney Patients and a former dialysis patient and a kidney transplant recipient, said in a press release from the organization. “The Jenny Kitsen Safety Award is designed to foster innovation in patient care and to further reduce the instances of preventable infections, an honorable goal that benefits patients their families and taxpayers.”
The Jenny Kitsen Patient Safety Award funds an annual lecture, presentation or program that will advance patient safety by exploring innovation in health systems management. The award was created in 2014 by the former Network of New England. Its board of directors established an endowment to continue the patient safety work of the non-profit organization led by former executive director Jenny Kitsen.
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www.aakp.org/jenny-kitsen-safety-award/