​​​Thank you to everyone who participated in Patient Safety Awareness Week last week! Staff from IHA's Indiana Patient Safety Center (IPSC) highlighted five key patient safety issues—opioid abuse/misuse, medication safety, patient engagement, safe sleep practices, and hand hygiene—in interviews with RTV6 throughout the week. You can view the interviews here. Be sure to also check out the great work of Indiana hospitals featured on the IHA Facebook page. While Patient Safety Awareness Week is a good time to bring attention to these issues, they are important and affect Hoosier lives year-round. Patient safety is everyone’s responsibility, and everyone needs to speak up, ask questions, take an active role in their care, and commit to making their communities safer. With your help, and the help of the patient safety coalitions across the state, we will continue to work toward our collective goal of zero patient harms.   ​