A National Patient Safety Board: What America Needs to Ensure Patient Safety

One in four people experience harm from the U.S. health care system, with medical errors and safety events causing over 250,000 deaths each year. These errors are now the third leading cause of preventable death in the country. It's time for change.

Establishing a National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) as an independent board within the Department of Health and Human Services could improve safety standards and reduce errors across the health care system by utilizing patterns and trends in patient safety events to identify and anticipate harm and develop solutions to prevent these events from occurring in the first place. Learn more about this vital initiative in Families USA's new fact sheet at the link below.