Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety

Acknowledgments

We like to thank some of the individuals and organizations who have contributed financially, with expertise, with faculty, with scholarships, and other resources to make this the best and most intensively complete distance leaning program on patient safety in the United States:

Virginian’s for Improving Patient Care & Safety (VIPC&S)  With the help of an implementation committee VIPC&S has contributed faculty, expertise, and scholarship money for our fellowship program.  VIPC&S waives all fees to enable our fellows to attend their outstanding annual conference in May held in Richmond Virginia.  In addition VIPC&S and other individuals have endowed the Carl W. Armstrong Award which is given annually to the best patient safety project designed by a fellow in that year. 

The Virginia Department of Health (VNA) through the generosity and enthusiasm of Rene S. Cabral-Daniels, J.D., M.P.H., before her retirement (and the first recipient of the Carl Armstrong Award) sponsors the Karen N. Swisher Award annually to the fellow who designs the best project to help promote safety among underserved and minority populations. 

The Virginia Nurses Association (VNA) who have sponsored annually a RN who is also a member of the VNA for ½ of the program fee.  This has allowed several RN’s in Virginia to make significant contributions to patient safety through improved nursing techniques. 

Hospital Organizations who have sent teams of 3 or more fellows a year to promote a “Culture of Safety”:

1. Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital
2. Prince William Health System
3. VCU Health System
4. Washington Hospital Center

Thomas F. Hancock III, JD, TC, of Hancock, Daniel, Johnson & Nagle, P.C. who because of his vision and generosity gave a substantial grant to VCU which allowed us to offer in the first class of 2001 to all fellows a program rate that is today twice the amount.