Continuing Medical Education

Accreditation Designation Statement

The Kaiser Permanente National CME Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Statement

The Kaiser Permanente National CME Program designates the "Seize the Moment: Excellence in Patient Safety" educational activity for a maximum of 10.0 hours category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Nursing Contact Hours

This program meets the requirements for Continuing Education in nursing in Massachusetts, pursuant to 244 CMR 5.00, the Board of Registration in Nursing Rules and Regulations: Continuing Education. Nurses who attend the 640 consecutive educational minutes offered by “Seize the Moment” will be awarded a certificate for 12.8 contact hours.

Educational Objectives

Target Audience: Patient safety officers, CEOs, COOs, CMOs, CNOs, clinical service directors, risk managers, QI directors, practice managers, and patient safety enthusiasts.

Upon completion of the "Seize the Moment: Excellence in Patient Safety" conference, participants will:

1. Recognize that optimal, systemic patient safety requires providers and insurers to share a mission, data, and resources.
2. Identify the commitments and organizational structures necessary to create a partnership between those in possession of their patient safety data and those with the power and authority to act upon them.
3. Conduct a gap analysis between their current patient safety structure and the optimal structure for their organization and its partners.
4. Apply tools and techniques for linking, interpreting, and conveying their disparate errors data (quantitative and qualitative) in order to prioritize patient safety resources.
5. Practice using error data, narratives, and perspectives to create the stories that motivate their colleagues and organizations to change behavior and systems.
6. Share best practice processes (criteria, identification, standardization, spread) that they can replicate.

Faculty Disclosure

Kaiser Permanente requires that faculty participating in National CME activities disclose to the audience any relationship with a pharmaceutical or industrial concern that might pose a potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest with regard to each faculty’s contribution to the program.

Funding Statement

The conference is funded by CRICO/RMF.