Patient Safety Movement Foundation Honors Ruth Ann Dorrill, Kimberly Cripe, Dr. Peter Lachman with Humanitarian Awards and Dr. Mike Durkin with Lifetime Achievement Award
September 10 2024 - 12:40AM
Business Wire
Capping an eventful two days at the 11th Annual World Patient
Safety, Science & Technology Summit, the Patient Safety
Movement Foundation (PSMF) presented its prestigious Humanitarian
Awards to visionaries and change agents in patient safety. The
honorees were Ruth Ann Dorrill, Assistant Inspector General, Office
of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General;
Kimberly Chavalas Cripe, the President and Chief Executive Officer
at Children’s Hospital of Orange County; and Dr. Peter Lachman,
Lead, Faculty Quality Improvement, Royal College of Physicians of
Ireland. A special Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Dr. Mike
Durkin, Chair of the PSMF’s Governance Board.
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2024 Humanitarian Award recipients (left
column, from top to bottom): Ruth Ann Dorrill, Assistant Inspector
General, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector
General, with Joe Kiani and Dr. Mike Durkin; Kimberly Chavalas
Cripe, the President and Chief Executive Officer at Children’s
Hospital of Orange County, with Joe Kiani; Dr. Peter Lachman, Lead,
Faculty Quality Improvement, Royal College of Physicians of
Ireland, with Joe Kiani and Dr. Mike Durkin. Main image (right):
Joe Kiani presents Dr. Mike Durkin with Lifetime Achievement Award.
(Photo: Business Wire)
Each year since 2013, the PSMF’s Humanitarian Award is presented
to a select group of distinguished individuals who have left an
indelible mark on healthcare and helped shape the future of patient
safety. As visionary leaders in their respective fields, they have
implemented innovative, evidence-based, and sustainable solutions
that transform the landscape of healthcare safety. This award
honors their outstanding achievements so that they may serve as
beacons of hope and sources of inspiration in the pursuit of zero
harm and creating a safer, more just healthcare system for all.
The PSMF Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest award the
PSMF can bestow. This individual will have made significant
contributions in the area of patient safety throughout their
career, and their achievements will have helped propel the medical
community toward zero preventable patient and healthcare worker
harm.
“It’s an honor to work with such a dedicated group of
individuals whose contributions toward advancing patient safety are
saving lives,” said PSMF Founder Joe Kiani. “As everyone in this
field knows, we can’t do it alone, and these individuals represent
the mentors we need to eliminate preventable patient harm in our
hospitals and create a safer healthcare system for all.”
Ruth Ann Dorrill works for the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services as the Assistant Inspector General in the Office of
Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Dorrill has been with the OIG for 28 years, leading the OIG’s work
in patient harm for 15 years. She has led national studies in
evaluating hospital and nursing quality, safety, and emergency
preparedness, and has directed management reviews of HHS programs,
including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
implementation of HealthCare.gov and management of the Indian
Health Service. She has testified before the U.S. House of
Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee regarding nursing
home quality and in 2021 received the Council of the Inspectors
General on Integrity and Efficiency Lifetime Achievement Award.
As the President and Chief Executive Officer of Children’s
Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) since 1997, Kimberly Chavalas
Cripe has made significant advances in improving patient care,
outcomes, and experience, while cultivating a growing healthcare
community rooted in a culture of safety, excellence, innovation,
and collaboration. Under Cripe’s leadership, CHOC has become a
forerunner of population health management with the singular goal
of fulfilling CHOC’s mission to advance and protect the health and
well-being of children. Among many other initiatives, Cripe
spearheaded efforts at CHOC to establish a robust pediatric system
of mental healthcare designed to be scalable and replicable by
other health systems. Cripe also serves as president of the CHOC
Foundation, which raises funds to support pediatric healthcare.
Dr. Peter Lachman serves as Lead, Faculty Quality Improvement,
at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin,
where he directs the Leadership and Quality program to develop
clinical leaders in quality improvement. He was Chief Executive
Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare
(ISQua) from 2016 to 2021 and was a Health Foundation Quality
Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in
2005–2006. Dr. Lachman was also the National Clinical Lead for
SAFE, a Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health program that
aims to improve situation awareness in clinical teams across
England and Ireland. In addition, his work for PSMF includes
editing Handbook publications on patient safety, medical
management, and quality improvement, and leading the Global
Interprofessional Patient Safety Fellowship program.
Dr. Mike Durkin, who is the current Chair of the Patient Safety
Movement Foundation’s Governance Board, was honored with a special
Lifetime Achievement Award by PSMF Founder Joe Kiani. In addition
to his work for PSMF, Dr. Durkin is the Senior Advisor on Patient
Safety Policy and Leadership, Institute of Global Health
Innovation, Imperial College London. He is recognized as one of the
world’s foremost authorities on patient safety and holds numerous
advisory positions, serving as Senior Advisor on Patient Safety
Policy and Leadership for the NIHR Imperial College Patient Safety
Translational Research Centre in the U.K., and Academic Director of
the Global Patient Safety Collaborative, a partnership between the
World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.K. government. Dr. Durkin
previously held clinical, research, and teaching positions in
cardiovascular anesthesia and critical care in the U.K. and the
U.S. before embarking on a 25-year career in medical management and
leadership, culminating in an appointment as National Health
Service (NHS) Medical Director across the South of England. Durkin
subsequently served as the NHS National Director of Patient
Safety.
PATIENT SAFETY MOVEMENT FOUNDATION
In 2012, Joe Kiani founded the nonprofit Patient Safety Movement
Foundation to eliminate preventable medical errors in hospitals.
His team worked with patient safety experts from around the world
to create Actionable Evidence-Based Practices that address top
challenges. Hospitals can make a formal commitment to ZERO
preventable deaths, and healthcare technology companies are asked
to sign the Open Data Pledge to share their data so that predictive
algorithms can be developed to identify errors before they become
fatal. The PSMF was established through the support of the Masimo
Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in
Healthcare.
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