Jason Boulanger
Senior Program Director for Patient Safety, Grants, and the Risk Assessment Unit
CRICO
Jason Boulanger is a Senior Program Director for Patient Safety and also serves as Director of the Grants program.
Jason is the patient safety liaison for the following organizations: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, MIT Health Services, Harvard University Health Services, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
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Case Study
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Case Study
The administration of fentanyl and propofol without appropriate assessment, resources, and a defined airway led to a patient’s death.
Failure to Diagnose Myocordial Infarction
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A 77-year-old with a pre-op history of abnormal EKGs died in the PACU following a cholecystectomy
Assessing the Impact of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions on Safety Culture with Proactive Risk Assessments
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Hospitals seeking to understand patient safety strengths and vulnerabilities in the context of mergers/acquisitions benefit more from a third-party perspective than from a limited internal process. CRICO’s Risk Assessment Unit has access to a rich body of work to help articulate identified factors and by which to frame improvement recommendations.