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We Don't Advocate for You, We Teach Your Family and Friends How To Become Part of Your Healthcare Team Has someone you know just been diagnosed with a life changing illness or scheduled for surgery or a medical procedure? Is someone you care about ill or elderly and you just want to "help?" Now you can! Host a workshop for your community group and help your friends become patient advocates for you and for others. Family Centered Patient Advocacy Training is a workshop for anyone who will be assisting or accompanying a friend or family member to the doctor or hospital. For more information on Family Centered Patient Safety Advocacy please visit Family Centered Patient Advocacy Training Also available, "An Introduction to Patient Safety" See our poster project for young people on Fighting Infections The Institute of Medicine reported in 1999 that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die from preventable medical errors in hospitals each year. In April 2006 another study was released by HealthGrades, a Colorado based research organization, that New York is one of the worst states in the nation in patient safety. Since 1997 PULSE of NY has been working with patients and families who have experienced a medical injury. Through PULSE support groups, community outreach and education, patients and their family members share experiences and for the first time have a place to talk about the outcomes that changed their lives forever. PULSE of NY leads the nation in grassroots patient safety education and encourages culture changes to enable patient participation to reduce unplanned outcomes costing the economy as much as $29 billion a year. Whether you have recently been diagnosed with a life changing medical condition, or are about to become a patient in today’s health care system, or are a medical professional in need of medical treatment, or want to help a friend or family member as they go through the health care system, we can help you take steps to get safe, quality care. If you feel you have been misdiagnosed, treated poorly, experienced a medical error or adverse event and want your experience to be heard so others may learn from your experience, you have also come to the right place. Our priority at PULSE is the patient and your needs. Let us help you make informed choices. For more information about PULSE visit PULSEAmerica.org