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The Emily Jerry Foundation & University Hospitals partner for National Patient Safety Awareness Week 2012.

My beautiful Emily would have been eight years old a few days ago on February 24th. Words cannot express how it feels, or how meaningful it is as Emily’s father, to be honoring my little girl by announcing our foundation’s new program, The Emily Jerry Pediatric Safe Patient Initiative and by giving this very important keynote speech at University Hospitals to begin National Patient Safety Week. The Emily Jerry Foundation has been working closely with University Hospitals over the past year, to find effective ways to collaborate in the area of patient safety, learning from Emily’s story, and trying to prevent similar errors from occurring again.

The following is the official poster University Hospitals will be posting internally. Click the image below to download a pdf with all the event details…

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February 21st – The Delaware Valley Society of Health-System Pharmacists presents “Intravenous Medication Compounding: Lessons Learned from a Fatal Error and Recommendations for Best Practices”

2012 is ramping up quite nicely for the Foundation. We have a major speaking engagement for The Delaware Valley Society of Health-System Pharmacists scheduled for February 21st in Conshohocken, PA. This event is titled “Intravenous Medication Compounding: Lessons Learned from a Fatal Error and Recommendations for Best Practices.”

The speakers include myself, Eric Cropp, and my good friend Michael Cohen, President of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. We are hoping to continue to make a worthwhile impact with our story and this event promises to be another great opportunity to do just that.

To read all the details of the event click on the image below to download the pdf…

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March 3 – Huntsville, Alabama 2012 PATIENT SAFETY SYMPOSIUM

I am truly excited to travel to Huntsville, Alabama this March to take part in the 2012 Patient Safety Symposium. As I have found my calling in being a Patient Safety Advocate each presentation seems to become more and more important. I am honored and humbled to have been asked to attend. This will be a great event, hopefully I’ll see some of you there!

To read all the details about the event click on the image below…

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Michael Cohen Authors Philadelphia Inquirer Article About Emily Jerry Foundation

An incredible article by a true patient safety advocate, Institute for Safe Medication Practices president Michael Cohen. I am incredibly thankful for the continued support he has shown our foundation and our mutual cause. Hopefully this article will touch and inspire those who it reaches.

Click on the image below to download a pdf of the actual newspaper clipping.

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Great Feedback from OSU speech on Nov. 21

I received the following very nice note from Ken Hale at OSU’s Pharmacy department and wanted to share some of the awesome comments our engagement received from students…

Hi Chris.

One of our faculty members, Bonnie Spiers, collected reflections from our pharmacy students who attended your program at Ohio State on November 21st. I found their feedback to be very thoughtful and encouraging. I thought you might like to see a few specific comments:

“This lecture was beyond beneficial to my future career as a pharmacist. I will take the things I learned through this program and keep them in my mind for the rest of my life as a health care provider.”

“This talk was extremely moving. It changes how I view my future career as a pharmacist”

“This is one event that was especially touching, and I know I will carry it with me throughout my career. It opened my eyes to realizing each medication is for a person, and each person is loved.”

“This lecture was one of the most interesting, inspiring, and heartfelt events that I have ever experienced.”

“This event was extremely unique, and seeing the two of them together (Chris Jerry and Eric Cropp) advocating for safety and awareness was inspiring.”

“I loved this lecture! The College of Pharmacy should do this every year.”


So, as you can see, it seems you achieved your goals in speaking with these future health professionals.

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2011 Recap

Below are a listing of all the speaking engagements and interviews I was a part of in 2011. I hope some of you were able to attend. Can’t wait to see what is in store for 2012. A sincere “Thank You” goes out to all those involved with making each and every one of these events a reality.

Emily Jerry Foundation Completed Lectures and Presentations for 2011

Interview with Leon Bibb ABC WEWS “Kaleidoscope”- Cleveland, OH

Ohio Northern University School of Pharmacy – Ada, Ohio

Interview with Dr. Charles Denham of TMIT & Eric Cropp for Discovery Channel Segment “ Out of The Danger Zone”- Cleveland, OH

TMIT Webinar entitled “A Hospital Accident: Lessons Learned – A Death, A Conviction, and A Healing”

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation- Cleveland, OH

Sanford Brown College- Cleveland, OH

Pharmacy OneSource Webinar

Multiple Ongoing Webinars with Pharmcon entitled “Emily’s Act Revisited: The Pharmacist, The Family and the Medication Error that Changed Their Lives”

Summa Healthcare- Akron, OH

Catheter Connections- Salt Lake City, UT

Baxa Corporation- Englewood, CO

Union Hospital- Dover, OH

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) IV Patient Safety Summit- Philadelphia, PA

The Massachusetts Society of Health-System Pharmacists- Boston, MA

The Rhode Island Society of Health System Pharmacists- Providence, RI

Jewish Hospital- Louisville, KY

University Hospital’s Pediatric Pharmacy Team – Cleveland, OH

Ohio State University Medical Center- Columbus, OH

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  • Our mission

    The Emily Jerry Foundation is determined to help make our nation’s, world renowned, medical facilities safer for everyone, beginning with our babies and children. We are accomplishing this very important objective by focusing on increasing public awareness of key patient safety related issues and identifying technology and best practices that are proven to minimize the “human error” component of medicine. Through our ongoing efforts The Emily Jerry Foundation is working hard to save lives every day.


    Thank You So Very Much for Your Support! ~Chris Jerry

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