Thank you for all for your continuous support of our mission to advance patient safety worldwide. We hope the warmth, joy and peace of this season reaches you and your loved ones. Here’s to a bright and successful New Year ahead!
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
Non-profit Organizations
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania 29,385 followers
Advancing patient safety worldwide by empowering the healthcare community to prevent medication errors.
About us
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is the only 501c (3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to preventing medication errors. ISMP is known and respected as the gold standard for medication safety information. For more than 30 years, it also has served as a vital force for progress. ISMP’s advocacy work alone has resulted in numerous necessary changes in clinical practice, public policy, and drug labeling and packaging. Among its many initiatives, ISMP runs the only national voluntary practitioner medication error reporting program, publishes newsletters with real-time error information read and trusted throughout the global healthcare community, and offers a wide range of unique educational programs, tools, and guidelines. In 2020, ISMP formally affiliated with ECRI to create one of the largest healthcare quality and safety institutions in the world. As a watchdog organization, ISMP receives no advertising revenue and depends entirely on charitable donations, educational grants, newsletter subscriptions, and volunteer efforts to pursue its life-saving work. Learn more at www.ismp.org.
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http://www.ismp.org
External link for Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1994
- Specialties
- Medication Safety and Preventing medication errors
Locations
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5200 Butler Pike
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania 19462, US
Employees at Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
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Jen Young
Medication Safety Specialist at Institute for Safe Medication Practices
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Dan Blumenthal
Enabling business by leveraging Information technology
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DeLinda S McDaniel, BS Pharm CCDM , cPGx
Patient Centered Provider of Chronic Care Management, Certified PGx/MTM Services at rx-Consultant
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Matthew Grissinger
Director, Education at Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
Updates
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Last week we recognized our impressive 27th annual Cheers Award winners, including Michael R. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Dr. David Bates, an unparalleled researcher who has changed how we view technology and created a body of work that is referenced by virtually everyone who is anyone in the field. For a recap of the event and more on all our winners: https://hubs.la/Q0303-7-0 #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationerrors #hospitals #nurses
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Parents and other caregivers: This holiday season, remember to put all medicine #UpAndAway and out of reach and sight of young children. Don't forget to keep vitamins and other supplements, including those in gummy form, up and away too. Find more handy tips at https://hubs.la/Q02_YcKp0 #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationerrors
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It’s a busy season for college students, with exams, winter break, and then heading back to school in the new year, all during the height of the cold and flu season! ISMP’s consumer website offers tips parents can share to reduce the risk of errors with over-the-counter and prescription medications: https://hubs.la/Q02_86F70 #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationerrors #pharmacist #nurses ECRI
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Counterfeit drugs are a growing problem. ISMP President Rita Jew recently participated in the 2024 Symposium on Public Health Strategies for Combating Substandard and Falsified Drugs, where she spoke about the current challenges healthcare practitioners face in detecting and managing counterfeit medicines. For ISMP recommendations on how to raise awareness about “fake” drugs on the practice level, visit: https://hubs.la/Q02ZdnpX0 #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationerrors #hospitals #pharmacist ECRI
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Attend the ISMP 27th Annual Cheers Awards: https://lnkd.in/esMGxCpp The Perioperative Opioid Stewardship Research Program (PROSPR) at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is being honored for improving the way opioids are managed during post-surgery hospital discharge. Congratulations to the team at SickKids, including Conor McDonnell, Monica Caldeira-Kulbakas, Julia Mallen, Sharanya N., Lara Navarro, and Suja Sri Satgunarajah. #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationsafetyleaders #cheers
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Attend the ISMP 27th Annual Cheers Awards: https://hubs.la/Q02Z4f0S0 The Quality Improvement Team at Cook Children's Health Care System is receiving a Cheers Award for significantly reducing the number of vaccine errors within their pediatric network. #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationsafetyleaders #cheers
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Attend the ISMP 27th Annual Cheers Awards: https://hubs.la/Q02Z4k480 The Michael R. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award is being presented to David Bates, MD, MSc, an internationally renowned safety expert, for his groundbreaking work evaluating the incidence and preventability of adverse drug events and harm from medications. #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationsafetyleaders #cheers
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Read this week’s ISMP newsletter for part two of our series on transitioning to ENFit (oral/enteral) and NRFit (neuraxial) devices to prevent tubing misconnections: https://hubs.la/Q02YlB0w0 #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationerrors #hospitals #pharmacist #nurses #enteralnutrition #regionalanesthesia #neuroanesthesia ECRI
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Network with safety leaders! If you will be at the ASHP Midyear Meeting, come to ISMP’s Cheers Awards dinner on December 10 to hear from innovators advancing safe medication use. Can’t attend? Please consider donating to honor the winners and support our lifesaving work. To register or donate: https://hubs.la/Q02Ycxh80 #medicationsafety #medsafety #patientsafety #medicationerrors #hospitals #pharmacist #ASHP24 ECRI
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