USA: National leaders unveil a vision for the future of patient safety

What if we could build the safest health system possible from scratch? That's the question posed by Safe By Design: Reimagining Health Care Around the Prevention of Harm, a new white paper that introduces the fictional yet realistic Ambition Health System as a blueprint for designing health care around the prevention of harm rather than reacting to it.

Prepared by the Coalition for Advancing Safer Healthcare (CASH), an initiative convened by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), Safe By Design moves beyond incremental improvements to today's fragmented healthcare system. Instead, it offers expert-informed recommendations that health system leaders can begin implementing now.

Developed through the leadership of CASH's four partner hubs—the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins University, the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation at UC San Diego Health, and The University of Utah Center for Evaluation of Health AI—the report also draws on the expertise of more than 100 national leaders in patient safety, healthcare delivery, technology, policy, and patient advocacy.

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Source: Jewish Healthcare Foundation, 28 July 2026